Exam question 2 · Family game night

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a cooperative game?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: cooperative game

This is exam question 2 of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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	8 characterises	obl
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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 game	det
10	cooperative	cooperative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 game	compound
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a cooperative game				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

The players are prohibited from communicating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 players	det
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prohibited	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prohibited	aux:pass
4	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 communicating	case
6	communicating	communicating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prohibited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive		the players		communicating			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from communicating=Eventuality

Option 2

The players compete individually and the eldest prevails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 players	det
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 compete	nsubj
3	compete	compete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	individually	individually	ADV	_	3 compete	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prevails	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prevails	det
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 prevails	amod
8	prevails	prevail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 compete	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compete	present	the players					individually property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The players act jointly against the game and share the outcome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 players	det
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 act	nsubj
3	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jointly	jointly	ADV	_	3 act	advmod
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 act	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 share	cc
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 act	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 outcome	det
11	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present	the players					against the game; jointly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	share	infinitive	the players not said here	the outcome					tree rules

Option 4

The players are divided by age into opposing teams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 players	det
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 divided	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 divided	aux:pass
4	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 age	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 divided	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 teams	case
8	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 teams	amod
9	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 divided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	present · passive	age	the players		opposing teams			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	oppose	gerund							vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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