Exam question 2 · Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows

Identify the principal reason for which persons walk, and do not run, around a swimming pool.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: identify, walk, not run · To what, where: principal reason, swimming pool

This is exam question 2 of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 walk	obl
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walk	nsubj
8	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 run	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 run	cc
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 run	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 run	advmod
13	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pool	punct
15	around	around	ADP	_	18 pool	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pool	det
17	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pool	compound
18	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	walk	present	persons			for the principal reason	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not run	infinitive · do-support			a swimming pool		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around pool=Trajectory

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

Running warms the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm	present		the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2

Running disturbs the swimmers in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 disturbs	nsubj
2	disturbs	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swimmers	det
4	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disturbs	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disturbs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disturb	present		the swimmers		the water			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus swimmer=Experiencer

Option 3

The lifeguard requires a clear view of the clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lifeguard	det
2	lifeguard	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 requires	nsubj
3	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 view	det
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 view	amod
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 requires	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 clock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clock	det
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 view	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	the lifeguard	a clear view of the clock					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme view=Precondition
2	view			the clock					nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The wet floor is slippery and falls onto hard tiles cause head injuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 floor	amod
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slippery	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slippery	cop
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 falls	cc
7	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slippery	conj
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 cause	mark
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tiles	amod
10	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cause	nsubj
11	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 falls	advcl
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 injuries	compound
13	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wet floor		slippery property	tree rules
2	fall	present	the wet floor not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cause	present	hard tiles	head injuries		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient

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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