Exam question 2 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

Select the sequence of adjectives consistent with the established conventions of English.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: sequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequence	det
3	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 adjectives	case
5	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sequence	nmod
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 conventions	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 conventions	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 conventions	amod
10	conventions	convention	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 English	case
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 conventions	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the sequence of adjectives					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

an old lovely wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a wooden old lovely box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a lovely old wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a wooden lovely old box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 box	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	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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