Exam question 2 · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

Identify the minimum distance which members of the public are advised to maintain from a seal resting upon a beach.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, members, seal · What happens: identify, advise, maintain, rest · To what, where: minimum distance, members, seal, beach

This is exam question 2 of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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	4 distance	det
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 advised	obj
6	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 advised	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 public	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 public	det
9	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 members	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 advised	aux:pass
11	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 distance	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 maintain	mark
13	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 advised	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 seal	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 seal	det
16	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maintain	obl
17	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 seal	acl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 beach	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 beach	det
20	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 resting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the minimum distance		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent distance=Theme
2	advise speech: other	present · passive		members of the public		tree rules
3	maintain not said to happen	to-infinitive	members of the public not said here		a seal	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent
4	rest	gerund	a seal not said here		a beach	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beach=Location

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

At least ten metres, with dogs retained on a lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 metres	nmod
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 metres	nummod
4	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dogs	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 metres	appos
8	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dogs	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 lead	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lead	det
11	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 retained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	participle		dogs not said here		a lead			tree rules

Option 2

At least ten metres, though dogs may approach freely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 metres	nmod
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 metres	nummod
4	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 approach	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 approach	mark
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 approach	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 approach	aux
9	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 metres	acl:relcl
10	freely	freely	ADV	_	9 approach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	may	dogs	ten metres at least not said here				freely property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Theme

Option 3

No distance, since seals are wholly harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 distance	det
2	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harmless	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 distance	punct
4	since	since	ADP	_	5 seals	case
5	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 distance	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 harmless	cop
7	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	8 harmless	advmod
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no distance since seals					harmless, wholly property	tree rules

Option 4

At least one metre, with dogs permitted to run free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 least	case
2	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	nmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 metre	nummod
4	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dogs	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 metre	conj
8	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dogs	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 run	mark
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 permitted	xcomp
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 run	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	participle		dogs not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive						free property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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