Exam question 2 · Lost outdoors

Identify the purpose served by a lost child hugging a tree.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, lost child · What happens: identify, serve, lose, hug · To what, where: purpose, tree

This is exam question 2 of lesson 49 «Lost 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 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 purpose	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 served	obl
9	hugging	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 child	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hugging	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the purpose		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	serve	participle		the purpose not said here	by a lost child	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hug	gerund	a lost child not said here	a tree		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Co-Agent

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

It assists the child to remain calm and in one place

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	2 assists	nsubj
2	assists	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assists	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remain	mark
6	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 assists	ccomp
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remain	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 place	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 place	nummod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assist	present	It	the child					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	remain	to-infinitive						calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It renders the child invisible to animals

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	2 renders	nsubj
2	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 renders	obj
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 renders	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 animals	case
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 invisible	obl

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

Option 3

It warms the tree for searchers

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	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 searchers	case
6	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warms	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	present	It	the tree				for searchers	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4

It indicates the direction of north to the searchers

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	2 indicates	nsubj
2	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 direction	det
4	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 indicates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 searchers	case
6	north	north	ADV	_	9 searchers	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 searchers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 searchers	det
9	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 direction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	It	the direction of the searchers					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot direction=Topic

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