Exam question 4 · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

State when playing fairly matters most.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: State · What happens: play, matter

This is exam question 4 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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	5 matters	nsubj
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 playing	advmod
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 State	acl
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	3 playing	advmod
5	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 matters	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 matters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund						fairly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	matter	present	State						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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 right answer

When one is losing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 losing	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 losing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 losing	aux
4	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · progressive	one						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only during official matches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 matches	advmod
2	during	during	ADP	_	4 matches	case
3	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 matches	amod
4	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

When one is winning by a great margin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 winning	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 winning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winning	aux
4	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 margin	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 margin	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 margin	amod
8	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 winning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present · progressive	one					by a great margin	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only when an adult is watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 watching	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 watching	advmod
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 watching	aux
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present · progressive	a adult						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/e4/