Exam question 4 · Thinking like a lifeguard

Select the response that is consistent with established guidance where thunder is audible.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, thunder · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 50 «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 guidance	case
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guidance	amod
9	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 audible	advmod
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 audible	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 audible	cop
13	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 guidance	amod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with established guidance; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	is	present	thunder		audible 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The person is close enough to be struck and should go indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 struck	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 struck	aux:pass
8	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 close	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 close	conj
12	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	11 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the person	close, enough property	tree rules
2	strike	to-infinitive · passive	the person not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
3	go	should	the person not said here	indoors property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The person is safe provided it is not raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 provided	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 provided	aux:pass
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 provided	amod
5	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 raining	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 raining	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 raining	advmod
9	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 provided	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	present · passive		the person					tree rules
2	not rain	present · progressive	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3

The person should lie down in an open field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 field	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 field	amod
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	should	the person			a open field			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location

Option 4

The person should shelter beneath the tallest tree that is near at hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shelter	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shelter	aux
4	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shelter	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 near	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 near	cop
11	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 hand	case
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 near	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shelter	should	the person			the tallest tree			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tree=Location
2	is	present	the tallest tree			hand		near property	tree rules

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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