Exam question 2 · Accents and dialects around the world

Identify the meaning of the South African English word "robot" in the instruction "Turn left at the robot".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, turn, mean · To what, where: meaning, instruction, robot, South African English word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 19 «Accents and dialects around the world» 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 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 word	compound
7	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 robot	punct
11	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 robot	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 instruction	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 instruction	det
15	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Turn	punct
17	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
18	left	left	ADV	_	17 Turn	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 robot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 robot	det
21	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Turn	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Turn	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the South African English word	the instruction		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme clause=Attribute
2	turn in a quote	infinitive			the robot	left property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at robot=Trajectory
3	mean			the South African English word			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

A traffic signal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 signal	det
2	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signal	compound
3	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A police constable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 constable	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 constable	compound
3	constable	constable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A toy shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shop	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shop	compound
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A mechanical servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	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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