Exam question 2 · The apostrophe war

Identify the formulation which indicates a single bowl held in common by several dogs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, formulation · What happens: identify, indicate, hold · To what, where: formulation, single bowl, common

This is exam question 2 of lesson 15 «The apostrophe war» of the language 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 formulation	det
3	formulation	formulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 indicates	nsubj
5	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 formulation	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bowl	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bowl	amod
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 indicates	obj
9	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bowl	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 common	case
11	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 held	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 dogs	case
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dogs	amod
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the formulation			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent formulation=Theme
2	indicate	present	the formulation	a single bowl			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bowl=Topic
3	hold	participle		a single bowl not said here	common	by several dogs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in common=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 dog's bowls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowls	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the dogs bowl's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bowl	compound
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bowl	case

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

Option 3

the dog's bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the dogs' bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bowl	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 dogs	case
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	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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