Exam question 1 · Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel…
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the plugs used in the United Kingdom and Ireland?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, use · To what, where: plugs
This is exam question 1 of lesson 322 «Home safety: blenders, loose sleeves, frozen metal, travel plugs, balconies, toddlers, medicines, fire and fireworks» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plugs | det |
| 10 | plugs | plug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obj |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 plugs | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Kingdom | det |
| 14 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 15 Kingdom | flat |
| 15 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl:agent |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Ireland | cc |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kingdom | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | the plugs | of the following statements; accurately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | the plugs not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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 right answer
Three square pins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pins | nummod |
| 2 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pins | amod |
| 3 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two flat pins, side by side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pins | nummod |
| 2 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pins | amod |
| 3 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 side | punct |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pins | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two slanted flat pins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pins | nummod |
| 2 | slanted | slant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pins | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pins | amod |
| 4 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slant | participle | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Two round pins only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pins | nummod |
| 2 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pins | amod |
| 3 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 pins | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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