Exam question 2 · Breakfast before a match and food after
It is given that kick-off is to take place in forty minutes. Select the most appropriate form of nourishment.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kick off, you · What happens: give, be, select, form · To what, where: It, appropriate form, nourishment
This is exam question 2 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» of the medicine 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
Sentence 1: It is given that kick-off is to take place in forty minutes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 off | det |
| 5 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 off | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 kick | punct |
| 7 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | ccomp |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 13 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minutes | nummod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that kick off | minute | take property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Select the most appropriate form of nourishment.
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 | 5 form | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 appropriate | advmod |
| 4 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nourishment | case |
| 7 | nourishment | nourishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | 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 appropriate form of nourishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | nourishment | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
The options
Option 1
No nourishment whatsoever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 nourishment | det |
| 2 | nourishment | nourishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 2 nourishment | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A substantial fried breakfast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 breakfast | det |
| 2 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 breakfast | amod |
| 3 | fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 breakfast | amod |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
A large quantity of confectionery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quantity | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quantity | amod |
| 3 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 confectionery | case |
| 5 | confectionery | confectionery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quantity | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A small and light snack such as a banana
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 snack | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snack | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 light | cc |
| 4 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 small | conj |
| 5 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 banana | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 banana | det |
| 9 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snack | nmod |
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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