Exam question 2 · Friends through games and clubs

Given that a pupil wishes to play an online game regularly with a person met at a tournament, ascertain the appropriate precondition.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pupil · What happens: give, wish, play, meet, ascertain · To what, where: online game, person, tournament, appropriate precondition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wishes	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 wishes	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pupil	det
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wishes	nsubj
5	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wishes	ccomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 game	det
9	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 game	amod
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obj
11	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	7 play	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 person	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 person	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 tournament	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tournament	det
18	tournament	tournament	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ascertain	punct
20	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 play	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 precondition	det
22	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 precondition	amod
23	precondition	precondition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ascertain	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wishes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	participle	a pupil not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	wish	present	a pupil				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive		a online game		with a person; regularly property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with person=Co-Agent
4	meet	participle		a person not said here	a tournament		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ascertain	infinitive		the appropriate precondition			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precondition=Topic

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 purchase of superior equipment

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	_	5 equipment	case
4	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 equipment	amod
5	equipment	equipment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	nmod

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

Option 2

No precondition whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 precondition	det
2	precondition	precondition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 precondition	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A password issued by the school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 password	det
2	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	issued	issue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 password	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 school	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 school	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	participle		a password not said here				by the school	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by school=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The permission of the pupil's parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 permission	det
2	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 parents	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pupil	det
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parents	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 pupil	case
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 permission	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit			the pupil's parents					nom permission «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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