Exam question 4 · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

State what decides the winner in a game of chance.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: decide · To what, where: winner, game

This is exam question 4 of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 State	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 winner	det
5	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winner	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 chance	case
10	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 game	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	State	the winner		a game of chance			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent winner=Topic

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 number of players

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 players	case
4	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod

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

Option 2

The cleverest strategy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strategy	det
2	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 strategy	amod
3	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Luck, not cleverness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cleverness	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cleverness	advmod
4	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Luck	conj

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

Option 4

The age of the player

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 age	det
2	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 player	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 player	det
5	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 age	nmod

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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