Exam question 3 · Fighting games at a friend's house

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a fighting game in which no blood is depicted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, depict · To what, where: fighting game, blood

This is exam question 3 of lesson 401 «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
10	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 game	compound
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 depicted	obl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 blood	det
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 depicted	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 depicted	aux:pass
17	depicted	depict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 game	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a fighting game		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	depict	present · passive	no blood	a fighting game		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It may nevertheless be classified as unsuitable for younger children on account of its violence

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 classified	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 classified	aux
3	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	5 classified	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 classified	aux:pass
5	classified	classify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 unsuitable	case
7	unsuitable	unsuitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 classified	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 children	case
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 classified	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 account	case
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 classified	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 violence	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 violence	nmod:poss
15	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 account	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	classify	may · passive		It		account of account's violence		as unsuitable; for younger children; nevertheless property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as unsuitable=Attribute
2	account			account's violence					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

It is exempt from any age classification

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 exempt	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 exempt	cop
3	exempt	exempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 classification	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 classification	det
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 classification	compound
7	classification	classification	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exempt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			any age classification		exempt property	tree rules

Option 3

It is necessarily suitable for all ages, there being no blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 suitable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suitable	cop
3	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	4 suitable	advmod
4	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 ages	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 ages	det
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suitable	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blood	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 blood	expl
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 blood	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 blood	det
12	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suitable	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				for all ages	necessarily, suitable property	tree rules
2	is a	gerund		no blood		there			tree rules

Option 4

It is classified solely according to its difficulty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 classified	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 classified	aux:pass
3	classified	classify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 classified	advmod
5	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 difficulty	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 according	fixed
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 difficulty	nmod:poss
8	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 classified	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	classify	present · passive		It				accord its difficulty; solely property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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