Exam question 4 · Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking

State the reason for which trail markers are checked at every junction.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: check · To what, where: trail markers, junction

This is exam question 4 of lesson 299 «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 checked	obl
6	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 markers	compound
7	markers	marker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 checked	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 checked	aux:pass
9	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 junction	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 junction	det
12	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 checked	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	present · passive		trail markers		every junction		for the reason	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute

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

To rest before continuing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rest	mark
2	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 continuing	mark
4	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rest	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	continue	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To report damaged markers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 report	mark
2	report	report	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 markers	amod
4	markers	marker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 report	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	to-infinitive		damaged markers					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marker=Patient
2	damage	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To count the number of junctions passed during the walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 count	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 junctions	case
6	junctions	junction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 junctions	acl
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 walk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walk	det
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive		the number of junctions					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	pass	participle		junctions not said here			during the walk		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To remain on the right path and be able to find the way back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remain	mark
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 path	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 path	amod
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remain	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 able	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remain	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive		the right path		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location
2	is	infinitive			able property	tree rules
3	find back	to-infinitive	the way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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