Exam question 2 · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

Identify the person to whom a pupil who is late, hurt or ill should first report.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: identify, be, report · To what, where: person

This is exam question 2 of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pupil	det
7	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 report	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 late	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 late	cop
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pupil	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hurt	punct
12	hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 late	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 ill	cc
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 late	conj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 report	aux
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 report	advmod
17	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 whom	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent person=Theme to whom=be'
2	is	present	a pupil		late property	tree rules
3	be		a pupil not said here			tree rules
4	be		a pupil not said here			tree rules
5	report	should	a pupil		first property	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 caretaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caretaker	det
2	caretaker	caretaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The school office or receptionist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 office	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 office	compound
3	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 receptionist	cc
5	receptionist	receptionist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 office	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The pupil's classmates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 classmates	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 pupil	case
4	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nobody, since it will pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pass	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	6 pass	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pass	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pass	aux
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nobody	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	future	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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