Exam question 4 · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

State the purpose of checking the timetable on the night before school.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: State purpose · What happens: check · To what, where: timetable

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purpose	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 checking	mark
5	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 purpose	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 timetable	det
7	timetable	timetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checking	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checking	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 checking	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 purpose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund	the State purpose not said here	the timetable			before school; night		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Theme

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

To choose one's teacher for the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 choose	mark
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 teacher	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 one	case
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	to-infinitive		one's teacher			day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme

Option 2

To decide which of the next day's lessons to miss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decide	mark
2	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lessons	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 lessons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lessons	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 day	case
9	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 decide	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 miss	mark
11	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decide	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	to-infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	miss	to-infinitive							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

To count the hours until the holidays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hours	det
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obj
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 holidays	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 holidays	det
7	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive					until the holidays; hour		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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

To bring the right things and know where to be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bring	mark
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bring	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 know	cc
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bring	conj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 be	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 be	mark
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	bring	to-infinitive	the right things	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	know	present		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	to-infinitive		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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