Exam question 3 · Maddie the tomboy

Ascertain the basis upon which girls have customarily been excluded from a particular recreational football game.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, exclude · To what, where: basis, girls, particular recreational football game

This is exam question 3 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 basis	det
3	basis	basis	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 excluded	obl
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 excluded	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 excluded	aux
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	10 excluded	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 excluded	aux:pass
10	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 basis	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	16 game	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 game	det
13	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 game	amod
14	recreational	recreational	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 game	amod
15	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 game	compound
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 excluded	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the basis					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basis=Topic
2	exclude	present · perfect · passive		girls		a particular recreational football game		upon the basis; customarily property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from game=Eventuality

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

A statute of the realm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 statute	det
2	statute	statute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 realm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 realm	det
5	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 statute	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A regulation issued by the council

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 regulation	det
2	regulation	regulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 regulation	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 council	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 council	det
6	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		a regulation not said here				by the council	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by council=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Habit, as distinct from any rule or law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 distinct	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 distinct	case
4	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Habit	conj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 rule	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 rule	det
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distinct	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 law	cc
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rule	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The physical incapacity of girls to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 incapacity	det
2	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 incapacity	amod
3	incapacity	incapacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 girls	case
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 incapacity	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 incapacity	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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