Exam question 2 · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

Identify the principal danger of startling a person who is driving, cooking or on the stairs.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, principal danger, person · What happens: identify, startle, drive, cook · To what, where: principal danger, person

This is exam question 2 of lesson 334 «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 danger	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 danger	amod
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 startling	mark
6	startling	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 danger	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 startling	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 driving	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 driving	aux
11	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 person	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cooking	punct
13	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 driving	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 stairs	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stairs	det
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 driving	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal danger	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent danger=Theme
2	startle	gerund	the principal danger not said here	a person	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer
3	drive	present · progressive	a person		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	cook	gerund	a person not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It improves their reactions to danger

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 improves	nsubj
2	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 reactions	nmod:poss
4	reactions	reaction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 improves	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 danger	case
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	It	their reactions				to danger	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent reaction=Patient
2	react		their = they						nom reaction «process intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It has no effect at all on adults

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 effect	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 adults	case
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 effect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no effect		all		on adults	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 3

It merely annoys them a little

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 annoys	nsubj
2	merely	merely	ADV	_	3 annoys	advmod
3	annoys	annoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 annoys	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 annoys	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	annoy	present	It	them = they				a little obl:unmarked; merely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can cause real accidents

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 cause	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	aux
3	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 accidents	amod
5	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	It	real accidents					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=Patient

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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