Exam question 1 · What fights cost at home
Identify the principal category of persons who incur costs consequent upon a pupil's participation in a fight.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, persons, principal category, pupil · What happens: identify, incur, cost, participate · To what, where: consequent, fight
This is exam question 1 of lesson 376 «What fights cost 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 category | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 category | amod |
| 4 | category | category | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 costs | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 persons | case |
| 6 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 category | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 incur | nsubj |
| 8 | incur | incur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 persons | acl:relcl |
| 9 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | acl:relcl |
| 10 | consequent | consequent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 costs | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 participation | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pupil | det |
| 13 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 participation | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 pupil | case |
| 15 | participation | participation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 costs | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fight | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fight | det |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 participation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | incur | present | persons | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cost | present | the principal category of persons | consequent | upon a pupil's participation in a fight | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme consequent=Value | |||
| 4 | participate | a pupil | a fight | nom participation «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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
Exclusively the pupil adjudged to have lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 4 adjudged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pupil | det |
| 3 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adjudged | nsubj |
| 4 | adjudged | adjudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 adjudged | xcomp |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 have | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adjudge | past | the pupil | exclusively property | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the pupil not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | participle | the pupil not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The pupil's family and others, in addition to the pupil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pupil | case |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 others | cc |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 family | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 addition | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 addition | case |
| 9 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pupil | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pupil | det |
| 12 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 addition | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No person whatsoever, provided that no injury of any kind is sustained by anyone
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provided | nsubj |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 person | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 person | punct |
| 5 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sustained | mark |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 injury | det |
| 8 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sustained | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kind | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 kind | det |
| 11 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 injury | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sustained | aux:pass |
| 13 | sustained | sustain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 provided | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 anyone | case |
| 15 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 sustained | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | no person | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | sustain | present · passive | anyone | no injury of any kind | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | injure | any kind | nom injury «state transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Exclusively the school authorities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 4 authorities | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 authorities | det |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 authorities | compound |
| 4 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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