Exam question 1 · Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★

Determine the direction in which an observer is facing, having commenced facing south and executed, in succession, a left turn and a further left turn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, observer · What happens: determine, face, commence, execute · To what, where: direction, succession

This is exam question 1 of lesson 63 «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 facing	obl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 observer	det
7	observer	observer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 facing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 facing	aux
9	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 direction	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 commenced	punct
11	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 commenced	aux
12	commenced	commence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Determine	parataxis
13	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 commenced	advcl
14	south	south	ADV	_	13 facing	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 executed	cc
16	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 commenced	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 succession	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 succession	case
19	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 executed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 turn	det
22	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 turn	amod
23	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 succession	appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turn	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 turn	det
26	further	further	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
27	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 turn	amod
28	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turn	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the direction		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Topic
2	face	present · progressive	a observer		in the direction	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme
3	commence	gerund · perfect				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	face	gerund			south property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	execute	participle		succession		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent succession=Patient

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

West

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	West	west	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

South

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	South	south	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

North

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

East

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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