Exam question 4 · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

State the risk associated with sharing helmets, hats and hairbrushes.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, associate · To what, where: risk

This is exam question 4 of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 risk	det
3	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 risk	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 helmets	case
6	sharing	sharing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helmets	compound
7	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 associated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hats	punct
9	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 helmets	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hairbrushes	cc
11	hairbrushes	hairbrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 helmets	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the risk					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent risk=Topic
2	associate	participle		the risk not said here				with sharing helmets and hats and hairbrushes	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with helmet=Co-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 cause the helmet to shrink

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	3 cause	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 helmet	det
5	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cause	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shrink	mark
7	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cause	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	may	They	the helmet					tree rules
2	shrink	to-infinitive	the helmet not said here						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They carry no risk whatsoever

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	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 risk	det
4	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	They	no risk				whatsoever property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They may spread head lice and germs

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	3 spread	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lice	compound
5	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 germs	cc
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	may	They	head lice and germs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location louse=Theme

Option 4

They may change the colour of one's hair

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	3 change	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 hair	case
7	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 one	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	may	They	the colour of one's hair					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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