Exam question 1 · Friends, teams and fair play
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a good friend?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: good friend
This is exam question 1 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | amod |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterises | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | a good friend | of the following statements; accurately 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
A person who gives the most presents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 person | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 presents | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 presents | amod |
| 7 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gives | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a person | the most presents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
Option 2
A person who is the most popular in class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 popular | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 popular | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 popular | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 popular | advmod |
| 7 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 person | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 class | case |
| 9 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 popular | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a person | class | popular property | tree rules |
Option 3
A person who always agrees with every opinion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 agrees | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 agrees | advmod |
| 5 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 person | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 opinion | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 opinion | det |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agrees | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | a person | with every opinion; always property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with opinion=Co-Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A person who is kind, honest and trustworthy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honest | punct |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trustworthy | cc |
| 9 | trustworthy | trustworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a person | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a person not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | a person not said here | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/e1/