Exam question 2 · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

Identify the principal reason for which a pupil answers the register clearly.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: identify, answer · To what, where: principal reason, register

This is exam question 2 of lesson 306 «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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	9 answers	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pupil	det
8	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answers	nsubj
9	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 register	det
11	register	register	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answers	obj
12	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	9 answers	advmod
13	.	.	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 reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	present	a pupil	the register				for the principal reason; clearly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent register=Eventuality

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

The teacher is otherwise unpaid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unpaid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unpaid	cop
4	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	5 unpaid	advmod
5	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the teacher					otherwise, unpaid property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The school must know who is in the building in an emergency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 school	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 building	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 building	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 building	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 building	det
9	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 emergency	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 emergency	det
12	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 building	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	must	the school						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present				the building		in a emergency	tree rules

Option 3

It improves the pupil's marks for speaking and listening at the end of the year

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 improves	nsubj
2	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pupil	det
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marks	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 pupil	case
6	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 improves	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 speaking	mark
8	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 improves	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 listening	cc
10	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 speaking	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 listening	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 year	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	improve	present	It	the pupil's marks		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mark=Patient
2	speak speech: other	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	gerund			at the end of the year	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=Theme
4	mark		the pupil			nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It decides the order of lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 decides	nsubj
2	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 order	det
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decides	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 order	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	It	the order of lunch					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent order=Topic
2	order			lunch					nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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