Exam question 2 · Hiking and the outdoors

Identify the items recommended to be carried upon a hike.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, items · What happens: identify, recommend, carry

This is exam question 2 of lesson 47 «Hiking and the outdoors» 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 items	det
3	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 recommended	nsubj
4	recommended	recommend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	7 carried	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 carried	aux:pass
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 recommended	xcomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 hike	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hike	det
10	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	recommend	past	the items		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry	to-infinitive · passive	the items not said here	upon a hike	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»

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

Heavy books and a radio for entertainment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 books	amod
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 radio	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 radio	det
5	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 books	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 entertainment	case
7	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 radio	nmod

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

Option 2

A phone alone, since it renders all other items wholly unnecessary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 phone	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 renders	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 renders	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 renders	nsubj
7	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 phone	acl:relcl
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 items	advmod
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 items	amod
10	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 renders	obl
11	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	12 unnecessary	advmod
12	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 renders	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present	phone	other items					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, since trails always have shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 have	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	4 trails	case
4	trails	trail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	nmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing	shops				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Water, a snack, an additional layer of clothing and a whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snack	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snack	det
4	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 layer	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 layer	det
7	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 layer	amod
8	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 clothing	case
10	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 layer	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 whistle	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whistle	det
13	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj

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

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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