Exam question 4 · Friends through games and clubs

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning disputes among players constructing a shared online city.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, players · What happens: select, establish, construct, share · To what, where: response, shared city

This is exam question 4 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	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	1 Select	xcomp
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 disputes	amod
10	disputes	dispute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 players	case
12	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disputes	nmod
13	constructing	construct	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 players	acl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 city	det
15	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 city	amod
16	online	online	ADV	_	15 shared	advmod
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 constructing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	construct	gerund	players not said here	a shared city		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Result
4	share	participle			online property	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 may be resolved by voting and taking turns

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	4 resolved	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 resolved	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	aux:pass
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 voting	case
6	voting	voting	NOUN	_	4 resolved	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taking	cc
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 resolved	conj
9	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	may · passive	voting	They					tree rules
2	take	gerund	voting not said here	turns					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

Option 2

They require the departure of all players at once

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 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 departure	det
4	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 players	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 players	det
7	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 departure	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 require	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	They	the departure of all players					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme departure=Precondition
2	depart		all players						nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They are invariably decided by the loudest player

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	4 decided	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	aux:pass
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 decided	advmod
4	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 player	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 player	det
7	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 player	amod
8	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present · passive	the loudest player	They				invariably property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

Option 4

They may be resolved only by deleting others' work

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	4 resolved	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 resolved	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	aux:pass
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 resolved	advmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 deleting	mark
7	deleting	delete	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 resolved	advcl
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 work	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 others	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deleting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	resolve	may · passive		They	tree rules
2	delete	gerund		others's work	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
3	work		others		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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