Exam question 2 · Safe toys and fair board games

Identify the principal aim of a game of chess.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, game · What happens: identify, aim · To what, where: principal aim

This is exam question 2 of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 aim	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 aim	amod
4	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 aim	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 chess	case
9	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 game	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal aim of a game of chess					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent aim=Theme
2	aim		a game of chess						nom aim «cognition intransitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The capture of as many of the opponent's pieces as possible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capture	det
2	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pieces	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 pieces	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 opponent	det
8	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 opponent	case
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 capture	nmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 possible	mark
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pieces	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture			the opponent's many pieces					nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The occupation of every square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 occupation	det
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 square	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 square	det
5	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occupation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupy			every square					nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Checkmate, the trapping of the opposing king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checkmate	checkmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trapping	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trapping	det
4	trapping	trapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Checkmate	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 king	amod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trapping	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oppose	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The removal of the opponent's queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 removal	det
2	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 queen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opponent	det
5	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 queen	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 opponent	case
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			the opponent's queen					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

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