Exam question 2 · Dogs and rabbits in your care

Identify the arrangement under which a child may walk a large or strong dog.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, walk · To what, where: arrangement, large dog

This is exam question 2 of lesson 62 «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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 arrangement	det
3	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 walk	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	aux
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 arrangement	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 strong	cc
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 large	conj
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the arrangement					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent arrangement=Theme
2	walk	may	a child	a large dog		the arrangement			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dog=Theme under which=Trajectory

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

Alone, provided the dog is old and slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alone	alone	ADV	_	3 provided	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alone	punct
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 provided	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slow	cc
9	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	provide	past		alone property	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	the dog	old property	tree rules
3	be		the dog not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Alone, provided the lead is long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alone	alone	ADV	_	3 provided	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alone	punct
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lead	det
5	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 provided	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past						alone property	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	the lead					long property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only in the company of an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 company	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 company	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 company	det
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 adult	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 company	nmod

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

Option 4

Only along busy roads with lots of traffic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 roads	advmod
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 roads	case
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roads	amod
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lots	case
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roads	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 traffic	case
8	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	nmod

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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