Exam question 4 · Farm animals and horses

Select the response that is consistent with the established practice concerning farm gates.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 28 «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 practice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 practice	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 practice	amod
10	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gates	amod
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gates	compound
13	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 practice	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established practice and concerning farm gates; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Gates should invariably be closed after passing through them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 closed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 closed	aux
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 closed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 closed	aux:pass
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 passing	mark
7	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 closed	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	should · passive		Gates				invariably property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	pass	gerund						through Gates = gate	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=Location

Option 2

Gates should be left open to allow animals to move freely about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 allow	mark
7	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allow	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 move	mark
10	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allow	xcomp
11	freely	freely	ADV	_	10 move	advmod
12	about	about	ADV	_	10 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	should · passive		Gates	open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	allow	to-infinitive		animals		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer animal=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	animals not said here		about, freely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Gates are of no concern to visitors to a farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 concern	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 concern	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 concern	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 concern	det
5	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 visitors	case
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 concern	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 farm	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farm	det
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 visitors	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gates					of no concern; to visitors to a farm	tree rules

Option 4

Gates should be climbed over rather than opened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climbed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 climbed	aux:pass
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 rather	case
6	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	8 opened	cc
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 rather	fixed
8	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 climbed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	should · passive		Gates					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	open	participle							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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