Exam question 3 · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants…

In respect of cacti, select the response consistent with established guidance.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, respect · To what, where: response, respect, cacti

This is exam question 3 of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cacti	case
4	cacti	cactus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 respect	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 respect	punct
6	select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 response	det
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	obj
9	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 response	amod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 guidance	case
11	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 guidance	amod
12	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consistent	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	respect of cacti	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
3	respect			cacti		nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

They may be hugged if small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hugged	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hugged	aux:pass
4	hugged	hug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 small	mark
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hugged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	may · passive		They				small property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent

Option 2

They shall be squeezed to release water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 squeezed	nsubj:pass
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 squeezed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 squeezed	aux:pass
4	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 release	mark
6	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squeezed	xcomp
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 release	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	shall · passive		They					tree rules
2	release	to-infinitive		water					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer water=Source

Option 3

They may be touched gently upon the spines, which are soft when young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 touched	aux:pass
4	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 touched	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 spines	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spines	det
8	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 touched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 soft	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 soft	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 soft	cop
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spines	conj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 young	advmod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	may · passive		They	upon the spines; gently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	is	present	the spines		soft property	tree rules
3	be		the spines not said here			tree rules

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

They shall be looked at but not touched, since spines are hard to remove

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj:pass
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	aux:pass
4	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	4 looked	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 touched	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 touched	advmod
8	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hard	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 hard	mark
11	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hard	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hard	cop
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 remove	mark
15	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	shall · passive		They		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	not touch	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	spines		hard property	tree rules
4	remove	to-infinitive	spines not said here			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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