Exam question 3 · Hiking and the outdoors
It being given that a hiker requires assistance, select the recognised whistle signal.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hiker · What happens: give, require, select, recognise · To what, where: It, assistance, recognised whistle signal
This is exam question 3 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 requires | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hiker | det |
| 6 | hiker | hiker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 requires | nsubj |
| 7 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 requires | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 select | punct |
| 10 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 requires | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 signal | det |
| 12 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 signal | amod |
| 13 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 signal | compound |
| 14 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 select | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | require | present | a hiker | assistance | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme assistance=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | select | infinitive | a hiker not said here | the recognised whistle signal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recognise | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 right answer
Three loud blasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blasts | nummod |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blasts | amod |
| 3 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A continuous blast lasting one minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 blast | det |
| 2 | continuous | continuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blast | amod |
| 3 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 blast | acl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minute | nummod |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lasting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | gerund | a continuous blast not said here | minute | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Ten soft blasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blasts | nummod |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blasts | amod |
| 3 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One short blast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blast | nummod |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blast | amod |
| 3 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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