Exam question 2 · The big language quiz

Identify the correctly punctuated sentence, consistent with the established conventions of English.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, punctuate, establish · To what, where: punctuated sentence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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	5 sentence	det
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 punctuated	advmod
4	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sentence	amod
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 consistent	punct
7	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 conventions	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conventions	det
10	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 conventions	amod
11	conventions	convention	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 consistent	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 English	case
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 conventions	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the punctuated sentence		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme
2	punctuate	participle			correctly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	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

The dog wagged its' tail.

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	3 wagged	nsubj
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 its	punct
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wagged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past	the dog	dog's tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The dog wagged its tail.

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	3 wagged	nsubj
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wagged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past	the dog	dog's tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3

The dog wagged it's' tail.

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	3 wagged	nsubj
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tail	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tail	cop
6	'	'	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wagged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past	the dog						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	dog	' tail					tree rules

Option 4

The dog wagged it's tail.

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	3 wagged	nsubj
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tail	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tail	cop
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	ccomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wagged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past	the dog						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	dog	tail					tree rules

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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