Exam question 1 · Friends through games and clubs

Identify the principal reason for which clubs and teams facilitate the formation of friendships.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, clubs · What happens: identify, facilitate · To what, where: principal reason, formation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 467 «Friends through games and clubs» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 facilitate	obl
7	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 facilitate	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 teams	cc
9	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clubs	conj
10	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 formation	det
12	formation	formation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 facilitate	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 friendships	case
14	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 formation	nmod
15	.	.	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 principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	facilitate	present	clubs and teams	the formation of friendships				for the principal reason	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 right answer

They furnish strangers with a common activity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 furnish	nsubj
2	furnish	furnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 furnish	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 activity	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 activity	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 activity	amod
7	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 furnish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	furnish	present	They	strangers				with a common activity	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient with activity=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They award badges for each friend acquired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 award	nsubj
2	award	awar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badges	badge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 award	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 award	obl
7	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 friend	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awar	past	They	badges				for each friend	tree rules
2	acquire	participle		each friend not said here					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

They oblige every member to befriend every other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 oblige	nsubj
2	oblige	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 member	det
4	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oblige	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 befriend	mark
6	befriend	befriend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 oblige	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 befriend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present	They	every member					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient
2	befriend	to-infinitive	They not said here	every other					tree rules

Option 4

Their leaders allocate friends to new members

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leaders	nmod:poss
2	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allocate	nsubj
3	allocate	allocate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allocate	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 members	case
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 members	amod
7	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allocate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allocate	present	Their leaders	friends				to new members goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent friend=Theme to member=Goal

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