Exam question 1 · Sleepovers and inside jokes
Identify the party whose rules govern the conduct of guests at a sleepover.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, rules · What happens: identify, govern, conduct · To what, where: party, conduct, guests
This is exam question 1 of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 rules | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 govern | nsubj |
| 6 | govern | govern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 party | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conduct | det |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 govern | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 guests | case |
| 10 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conduct | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sleepover | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sleepover | det |
| 13 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guests | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the party | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent party=Theme | ||||
| 2 | govern | present | rules | the conduct of guests at a sleepover | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conduct | guests at a sleepover | nom conduct «act 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
No party whatsoever, on that occasion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 party | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 occasion | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 occasion | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 occasion | det |
| 7 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 party | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The eldest guest present
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 present | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 present | amod |
| 3 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 present | compound |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The parents of the host
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 host | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parents | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Each guest according to his own household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 guest | det |
| 2 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 household | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 according | fixed |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 household | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 household | amod |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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