Exam question 4 · The pet that loves you most

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning measures to secure the return of a lost dog.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lost dog · What happens: select, establish, secure, lose, return · To what, where: response, return

This is exam question 4 of lesson 460 «The pet that loves you most» 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 measures	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 measures	amod
10	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Select	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 secure	mark
12	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Select	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 return	det
14	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 secure	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 dog	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dog	amod
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 return	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	tree rules
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	secure	to-infinitive	you not said here	the return of a lost dog	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition return=Theme
4	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	return		a lost dog		nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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

Microchipping and a tag bearing a telephone number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Microchipping	microchipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tag	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tag	det
4	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Microchipping	conj
5	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Microchipping	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
7	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 number	compound
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	Microchipping and a tag not said here	a telephone number					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient

Option 2

The purchase of an untagged collar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purchase	det
2	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 collar	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 collar	det
5	untagged	untagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 collar	amod
6	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purchase			a untagged collar					nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Reliance upon the dog's sense of direction alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reliance	reliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 sense	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dog	case
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reliance	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 direction	case
8	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sense	nmod
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 direction	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense		the dog	direction					nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 4

The display of the dog's photograph indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 display	det
2	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 photograph	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 photograph	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dog	case
7	photograph	photograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 display	nmod
8	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	7 photograph	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display			the dog's photograph					nom display «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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