Exam question 4 · Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building

Determine which of the following constitutes a fair rule for a building competition.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, follow, constitute · To what, where: fair rule

This is exam question 4 of lesson 424 «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building» 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	6 constitutes	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 constitutes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 constitutes	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 constitutes	nsubj
6	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rule	det
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rule	amod
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 constitutes	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 competition	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 competition	det
12	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 competition	compound
13	competition	competition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rule	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	constitute	present		a fair rule	for a building competition	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Pivot

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

That the eldest participant shall be declared winner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 declared	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 participant	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 participant	amod
4	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declared	nsubj:pass
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 declared	aux:pass
7	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	shall · passive		That					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That no participant shall judge his or her own build

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 participant	det
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 participant	det
3	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 judge	aux
5	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 build	nmod:poss
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 build	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 build	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 build	amod
10	build	build	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 judge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	shall	that participant	participant's own build					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent build=Value

Option 3

That the organiser shall be the sole judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 organiser	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 organiser	det
3	organiser	organiser	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 judge	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 judge	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 judge	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 judge	det
7	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 judge	amod
8	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	that organiser	the sole judge					tree rules

Option 4

That each participant shall award himself full marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 participant	det
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 participant	det
3	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 award	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 award	aux
5	award	award	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 award	obj
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 marks	amod
8	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 award	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	award	shall	that participant	participant					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal mark=Theme

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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