Exam question 4 · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

Ascertain the meaning conveyed by the suffix "-less" in the word "hopeless".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, convey · To what, where: meaning, word

This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	obj
4	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 meaning	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 suffix	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 suffix	det
7	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conveyed	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 suffix	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 less	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 word	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 word	det
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conveyed	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hopeless	punct
16	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 word	appos
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hopeless	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	convey	participle		the meaning not said here		the word		by the suffix	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Without

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Full of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Full	obl

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

Option 4

Somewhat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	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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