Exam question 2 · Climbing trees and playgrounds

Identify the principal reason for which dead branches ought not to bear the weight of a climber.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, dead branches · What happens: identify, not bear · To what, where: principal reason, weight

This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Climbing trees and playgrounds» 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 bear	obl
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 branches	amod
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bear	nsubj
9	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bear	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bear	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bear	mark
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weight	det
14	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bear	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 climber	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 climber	det
17	climber	climber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weight	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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	not bear	ought	dead branches	the weight of a climber				for the principal reason	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer weight=Stimulus for which=Attribute

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

Being green, they are excessively slippery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 green	cop
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slippery	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slippery	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slippery	cop
6	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	7 slippery	advmod
7	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						green property	tree rules
2	is	present	they					excessively, slippery property	tree rules

Option 2

Being heavy, they bend the tree towards the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heavy	cop
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bend	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bend	nsubj
5	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	obj
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	they not said here					heavy property	tree rules
2	bend	present	they	the tree				towards the ground	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tree=Material

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Being dry and brittle, they are liable to snap without warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dry	cop
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 brittle	cc
4	brittle	brittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dry	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 liable	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 liable	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 liable	cop
8	liable	liable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dry	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 snap	mark
10	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 liable	advcl
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 warning	case
12	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		dry property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	is	present	they	liable property	tree rules
4	snap	to-infinitive	they not said here	without warning	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Being thick, they cannot be grasped by the hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thick	cop
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grasped	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grasped	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grasped	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 grasped	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 grasped	aux:pass
8	grasped	grasp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thick	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grasped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						thick property	tree rules
2	not grasp	can · passive	the hand	they					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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