Exam question 1 · The new kid and the first day

Identify the action most likely to relieve the isolation of a pupil who joins a school midway through the year.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pupil · What happens: identify, relieve, join, isolate · To what, where: action, isolation, school midway, pupil

This is exam question 1 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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 action	det
3	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 Identify	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 relieve	mark
7	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 isolation	det
9	isolation	isolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relieve	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pupil	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pupil	det
12	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 isolation	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 joins	nsubj
14	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pupil	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 midway	det
16	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 midway	compound
17	midway	midway	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joins	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 year	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joins	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the action		likely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2	relieve	to-infinitive	you not said here	the isolation of a pupil			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus isolation=Experiencer
3	join	present	a pupil	a school midway	year		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent midway=Patient
4	isolate			a pupil			nom isolation «state 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

The suggestion that she read the notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 suggestion	det
2	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 read	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 suggestion	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 notices	det
7	notices	notice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	she	the notices					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A simple invitation to participate in play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 invitation	det
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 invitation	amod
3	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 participate	mark
5	participate	participate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 invitation	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 play	case
7	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 participate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	participate	to-infinitive						in play	vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in play=Theme

Option 3

The recommendation that she wait for others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 recommendation	det
2	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 wait	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 recommendation	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive	she	the recommendation not said here				for others	tree rules

Option 4

A public enquiry as to why she is alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 enquiry	det
2	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enquiry	amod
3	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 alone	mark
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 as	fixed
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 alone	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 alone	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 alone	cop
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 enquiry	advcl

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

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