Exam question 4 · Crossing the road

Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning young children crossing roads.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established guidance, young children · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, cross · To what, where: response, young children, roads

This is exam question 4 of lesson 41 «Crossing the road» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guidance	case
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	amod
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 guidance	acl
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 concerning	obj
13	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 children	acl
14	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crossing	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with established guidance; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	established guidance not said here	young children		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
5	cross	gerund	young children not said here	roads		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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

Young children should cross alone in order to learn independence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cross	xcomp
6	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 learn	mark
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 in	fixed
8	to	to	PART	_	9 learn	mark
9	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cross	advcl
10	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	should	Young children					alone property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	to-infinitive	Young children not said here	independence					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Young children should cross holding the hand of an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cross	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 adult	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	should	Young children						tree rules
2	hold	gerund	Young children not said here	the hand of a adult					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 3

Young children should cross only when it is dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 dark	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dark	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dark	cop
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cross	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	should	Young children						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					dark property	tree rules

Option 4

Young children should cross only at a run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 run	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 run	det
8	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	should	Young children			a run			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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