Exam question 4 · Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi

Whereas a tablet has switched itself off on account of excessive heat, select the response consistent with the established facts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: switch off, select, establish, account · To what, where: tablet, account, response, excessive heat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 409 «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 switched	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tablet	det
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switched	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 switched	aux
5	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 select	advcl
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 switched	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 switched	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 account	case
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switched	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 heat	case
11	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heat	amod
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 account	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 switched	punct
14	select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 response	det
16	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 select	obj
17	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 response	amod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 facts	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 facts	det
20	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 facts	amod
21	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 consistent	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	switch off	present · perfect · passive		a tablet	account of excessive heat	tree rules
2	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	account			excessive heat		nom account «communication 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

The device ought to be placed forthwith in a freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 device	det
2	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 placed	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 placed	aux:pass
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 placed	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 freezer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 freezer	det
10	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	ought · passive		the device		a freezer		forthwith property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in freezer=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The device ought to be permitted to cool, and the user to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 device	det
2	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 permitted	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 permitted	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 permitted	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 permitted	aux:pass
6	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cool	mark
8	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 permitted	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 user	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 user	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 user	det
12	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 permitted	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rest	mark
14	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 user	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	permit	ought · passive	the device	the user obl	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	cool not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rest	to-infinitive			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The device ought to be covered so as to retain warmth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 device	det
2	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 covered	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 covered	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 retain	mark
9	to	to	PART	_	10 retain	mark
10	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 covered	advcl
11	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 retain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	ought · passive		the device					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	retain	to-infinitive		warmth					tree rules

Option 4

The device ought to be restarted and play resumed immediately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 device	det
2	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restarted	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 restarted	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 restarted	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 restarted	aux:pass
6	restarted	restart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 play	cc
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 restarted	conj
9	resumed	resume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 restarted	xcomp
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	9 resumed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	restart	ought · passive	the device		tree rules
2	play	infinitive			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	resume	participle		immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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