Exam question 3 · The beach and the sea

It being given that a red flag is displayed alone upon a beach, determine its meaning.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flag · What happens: give, display, determine, mean · To what, where: It, red flag, meaning

This is exam question 3 of lesson 44 «The beach and the sea» 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 displayed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flag	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flag	amod
7	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 displayed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 displayed	aux:pass
9	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 displayed	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 beach	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beach	det
13	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 displayed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 meaning	nmod:poss
17	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	gerund · passive		It		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	display	present · passive		a red flag	upon a beach; alone property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	determine	infinitive		flag's meaning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
4	mean		flag			nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

That swimming is too dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 swimming	det
2	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that swimming					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That lifeguards are present all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 lifeguards	det
2	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 present	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 present	cop
4	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 present	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that lifeguards				day	present property	tree rules

Option 3

That surfing is permitted but not swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 surfing	det
2	surfing	surfing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 permitted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 permitted	aux:pass
4	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 swimming	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 swimming	advmod
7	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 permitted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present · passive		that surfing					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not swim	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That the swimming area lies before it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 area	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swimming	det
3	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 area	compound
4	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lies	nsubj
5	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	that swimming area			it			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location

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