Exam question 4 · Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water…

State the activity appropriate for a child who is bored and has no screen.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: be, have · To what, where: screen

This is exam question 4 of lesson 319 «Anger, fears (films, needles, thunder, spiders, deep water, the news, getting lost) and boredom» 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	4 appropriate	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 activity	det
3	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	nsubj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bored	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bored	cop
10	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 has	cc
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bored	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 screen	det
14	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appropriate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a child					bored property	tree rules
2	have	present	a child not said here	no screen					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=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

Exploring a building site

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exploring	explore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 site	det
3	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 site	compound
4	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exploring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explore	gerund		a building site					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent site=Location

Option 2

Climbing onto the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	onto	onto	ADP	_	4 roof	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund				the roof			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto roof=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Building a den, reading, drawing or helping to cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 den	det
3	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Building	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reading	punct
5	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 den	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drawing	punct
7	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Building	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 helping	cc
9	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Building	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cook	mark
11	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	build	gerund	a den and reading	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset den=Product
2	draw	gerund		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	gerund		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	cook	to-infinitive		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Searching for excitement in risky places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 excitement	case
3	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Searching	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 places	case
5	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 places	amod
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	gerund				risky places		for excitement	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for excitement=Theme in place=Location

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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