Exam question 4 · Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keep…
State how a school must treat a pupil who has skipped a lesson until their whereabouts are known.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: State, pupil · What happens: treat, skip, know · To what, where: pupil, lesson, whereabouts
This is exam question 4 of lesson 335 «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» 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 | 6 treat | nsubj |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 treat | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 school | det |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treat | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 treat | aux |
| 6 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pupil | det |
| 8 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treat | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 skipped | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 skipped | aux |
| 11 | skipped | skip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 pupil | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lesson | det |
| 13 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skipped | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 known | mark |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 whereabouts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whereabouts | whereabouts | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 known | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | aux:pass |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 skipped | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 treat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | must | State | a pupil | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pupil=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | skip | present · perfect | a pupil | a lesson | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | present · passive | their whereabouts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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
As a pupil who has gone home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 pupil | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pupil | det |
| 3 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | as a pupil; home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
As a matter of no concern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 matter | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 concern | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 concern | det |
| 6 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | no concern | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
As a pupil on a break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 pupil | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pupil | det |
| 3 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 break | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 break | det |
| 6 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pupil | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
As a missing child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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