Exam question 4 · Just one more game

Determine which of the following measures is most likely to facilitate the cessation of play without dispute.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, follow, be, facilitate, cease · To what, where: cessation, play

This is exam question 4 of lesson 417 «Just one more game» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 likely	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 measures	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 measures	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 measures	amod
6	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 which	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 likely	cop
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 likely	advmod
9	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Determine	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 facilitate	mark
11	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 likely	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cessation	det
13	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 facilitate	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 play	case
15	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cessation	nmod
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 dispute	case
17	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 facilitate	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present			likely property	tree rules
4	facilitate	to-infinitive		the cessation of play	without dispute	tree rules
5	cease			play		nom cessation «event 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 sudden disconnection of the electricity supply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 disconnection	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 disconnection	amod
3	disconnection	disconnection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 supply	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 supply	det
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 supply	compound
7	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disconnection	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disconnect			the electricity supply					nom disconnection «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The removal of all clocks from the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 removal	det
2	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 clocks	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clocks	det
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 removal	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clocks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			all clocks from the room					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A warning issued some minutes before the agreed end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 warning	acl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 minutes	det
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 issued	obl:unmarked
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 end	amod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		a warning not said here			before the agreed end; minute		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before end=Location
2	agree speech: agree	participle							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The promise of an additional game on each occasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 game	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 game	amod
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 occasion	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 occasion	det
9	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise			a additional game on each occasion					nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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