Exam question 3 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas

Pursuant to the conventions of careful written English, identify the correctly formulated expression.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: write, identify, formulate · To what, where: formulated expression

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	10 identify	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 conventions	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conventions	det
4	conventions	convention	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pursuant	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 English	case
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 English	amod
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 English	amod
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 conventions	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pursuant	punct
10	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 expression	det
12	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	13 formulated	advmod
13	formulated	formulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 expression	amod
14	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 identify	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	identify	imperative	you not said here	the formulated expression	pursuant property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
3	formulate	participle			correctly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Fewer sweets and less sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sweets	amod
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sugar	cc
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sugar	amod
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sweets	conj

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

Option 2

Fewer sugar and fewer sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sugar	amod
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sweets	cc
4	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sweets	amod
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sugar	conj

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

Option 3

Less sweets and fewer sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sweets	amod
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sugar	cc
4	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sugar	amod
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sweets	conj

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

Option 4

Less sweets and less sugars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sweets	amod
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sugars	cc
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sugars	amod
5	sugars	sugar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sweets	conj

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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