Exam question 3 · Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition designated «tilted»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: follow, characteris, designate, tilt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 407 «Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar» 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	1 Which	nmod
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 condition	det
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 designated	nsubj
11	designated	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 characterises	ccomp
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 tilted	punct
13	tilted	tilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 designated	ccomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 tilted	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		accurately property	tree rules
3	designate	past	the condition		tree rules
4	tilt in a quote	participle	the condition not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

A defect in the positioning of the display

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 defect	det
2	defect	defect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 positioning	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 positioning	det
5	positioning	positioning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 defect	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 display	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 display	det
8	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 positioning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	position			the display					nom positioning «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A state of exceptional skill following several consecutive victories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 state	det
2	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 skill	case
4	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skill	amod
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 state	nmod
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 state	acl
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 victories	amod
8	consecutive	consecutive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 victories	amod
9	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund	a state of exceptional skill not said here	several consecutive victories					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A state of annoyance in which performance progressively deteriorates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 state	det
2	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deteriorates	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 annoyance	case
4	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 state	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 performance	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 performance	det
7	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 state	nmod
8	progressively	progressively	ADV	_	9 deteriorates	advmod
9	deteriorates	deteriorate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deteriorate	present	a state of annoyance in which performance					progressively property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A penalty imposed by the game operator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 penalty	det
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 penalty	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 operator	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 operator	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 operator	compound
7	operator	operator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imposed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	participle		a penalty not said here				by the game operator	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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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