Exam question 1 · Left out without a console

Identify the principal reason for which a pupil without a console asserted a dislike of games.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: identify, assert, dislike · To what, where: principal reason, dislike, games

This is exam question 1 of lesson 399 «Left out without a console» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 asserted	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pupil	det
8	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asserted	nsubj
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 console	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 console	det
11	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pupil	nmod
12	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dislike	det
14	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asserted	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 games	case
16	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dislike	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	assert	past	a pupil without a console	a dislike of games	for the principal reason	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dislike=Theme
3	dislike			games		nom dislike «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

A wish to impress the teaching staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 impress	mark
4	impress	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 staff	det
6	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staff	compound
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impress	to-infinitive		the teaching staff					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus staff=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A desire to conceal the feeling of being excluded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desire	det
2	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 conceal	mark
4	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 desire	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feeling	det
6	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conceal	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 excluded	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 excluded	aux:pass
9	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 feeling	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	to-infinitive		the feeling					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
2	exclude	gerund · passive		the feeling not said here					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»

Option 3

A genuine and lifelong aversion to all play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 aversion	det
2	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 aversion	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lifelong	cc
4	lifelong	lifelong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 genuine	conj
5	aversion	aversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 play	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 play	det
8	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aversion	nmod

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

Option 4

An instruction from the school to that effect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 school	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 school	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 instruction	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 effect	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 effect	det
8	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 instruction	nmod

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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