Exam question 1 · Verbs: doing words and being words

Identify the verb contained in the sentence "The dog barked".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: identify, contain, bark · To what, where: verb, sentence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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 verb	det
3	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 verb	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sentence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sentence	det
7	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 contained	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 barked	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 barked	nsubj
11	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sentence	acl:relcl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 barked	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the verb		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme
2	contain	participle		the verb not said here	the sentence	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sentence=Location
3	bark in a quote	past	the dog	the sentence not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	root	root

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

Option 2

The dog

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	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

barked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	participle							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dog	dog	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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