Exam question 3 · Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues…
It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA. Select the customary tip.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, you · What happens: give, dine, select · To what, where: It, sit restaurant, customary tip
This is exam question 3 of lesson 331 «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a family dines at a sit-down restaurant in the USA.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 dines | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dines | nsubj |
| 7 | dines | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 restaurant | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 restaurant | det |
| 10 | sit | sit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 restaurant | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 down | punct |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sit | compound |
| 13 | restaurant | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dines | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 USA | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 USA | det |
| 16 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 restaurant | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dine | present | a family | a sit restaurant in the USA | vn dine-39.5 «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.
Sentence 2: Select the customary tip.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tip | det |
| 3 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tip | compound |
| 4 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the customary tip | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About half the bill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 bill | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bill | det |
| 4 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About one per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cent | nummod |
| 3 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cent | compound |
| 4 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No tip whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tip | det |
| 2 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 tip | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About fifteen to twenty per cent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 fifteen | advmod |
| 2 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 twenty | case |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fifteen | nmod |
| 5 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cent | compound |
| 6 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twenty | nmod:unmarked |
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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