Exam question 4 · Fire at home

Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning smoke alarms.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 34 «Fire at home» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guidance	case
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	amod
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 alarms	amod
11	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alarms	compound
12	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guidance	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with established guidance concerning smoke alarms; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

They should be installed only in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 installed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 installed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 installed	aux:pass
4	installed	install	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 kitchen	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 installed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	install	should · passive		They		the kitchen			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in kitchen=Destination

Option 2

They should be tested once in every ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tested	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 tested	aux:pass
4	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 tested	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 years	det
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	should · passive		They			year	once property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

They should be disconnected whilst cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disconnected	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disconnected	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 disconnected	aux:pass
4	disconnected	disconnect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	6 cooking	case
6	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disconnected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disconnect	should · passive		They				whilst cooking	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They should be installed upon every level of a dwelling and tested monthly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 installed	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 installed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 installed	aux:pass
4	installed	install	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 level	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 level	det
7	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 installed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 dwelling	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dwelling	det
10	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 level	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tested	cc
12	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 installed	conj
13	monthly	monthly	ADV	_	12 tested	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	install	should · passive		They		every level of a dwelling			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon level=Destination
2	test	participle						monthly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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