Exam question 1 · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the danger of sledding head first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: danger

This is exam question 1 of lesson 328 «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» 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 danger	det
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	sledding	sledding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	compound
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 danger	nmod
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 characterises	advmod
15	?	?	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 danger of sledding head				of the following statements; accurately, first property	tree rules

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

It is dangerous only on flat ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	cop
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ground	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			flat ground		dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2

It makes the sled slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sled	det
4	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the sled				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sled=Product

Option 3

It is the safest way to sled, since the rider can see ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sled	mark
7	sled	sled	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rider	det
11	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sled	conj
14	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	13 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the safest way		tree rules
2	sled	to-infinitive				vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	see	can	the rider		ahead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It makes head and neck injuries more likely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 injuries	compound
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 neck	cc
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	conj
6	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 likely	advmod
8	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	head injuries				likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material injury=Product

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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