Exam question 3 · Being gentle with small animals
It is given that a small animal is hiding or asleep. Select the response consistent with established guidance.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: small animal, you · What happens: give, hide, select, establish · To what, where: It, response
This is exam question 3 of lesson 288 «Being gentle with small animals» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a small animal is hiding or asleep.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hiding | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hiding | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hiding | aux |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | advcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 asleep | cc |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hiding | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | present · progressive | a small animal | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Select the response consistent with established guidance.
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 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 response | amod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 guidance | case |
| 6 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 guidance | amod |
| 7 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consistent | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
The options
Option 1
It shall be gently pulled out to play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pulled | aux:pass |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 pulled | advmod |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pulled | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | shall · passive | It | gently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It shall be woken with a loud noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 woken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 woken | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 woken | aux:pass |
| 4 | woken | wake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 noise | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noise | amod |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | shall · passive | It | with a loud noise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with noise=Instrument |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It shall be left alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | 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 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | shall · passive | It | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
It shall be chased to exercise it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 chased | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chased | aux:pass |
| 4 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 exercise | mark |
| 6 | exercise | exercise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chased | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exercise | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | shall · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exercise | to-infinitive | it | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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