Exam question 4 · Posture and eyes for sporty kids

Ascertain the principal reason for which protective eyewear is recommended in squash.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, recommend · To what, where: principal reason, protective eyewear, squash

This is exam question 4 of lesson 58 «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» 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

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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 recommended	obl
7	protective	protective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyewear	amod
8	eyewear	eyewear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recommended	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 recommended	aux:pass
10	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 squash	case
12	squash	squash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recommended	obl
13	.	.	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 principal reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	recommend	present · passive		protective eyewear		squash		for the principal reason	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute

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

The ball travels very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travels	nsubj
3	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 travels	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	the ball					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The rules prohibit spectacles of any kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rules	det
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prohibit	nsubj
3	prohibit	prohibit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prohibit	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spectacles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	infinitive	the rules	spectacles of any kind					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer spectacle=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ball is small enough to enter the eye socket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 small	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 enter	mark
7	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 socket	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 socket	compound
10	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enter	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ball					enough, small property	tree rules
2	enter	to-infinitive	the ball not said here	the eye socket					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme socket=Destination

Option 4

The ball is too large to cause injury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 large	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 large	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 large	advmod
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cause	mark
7	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 large	advcl
8	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ball					large property	tree rules
2	cause	to-infinitive	the ball not said here	injury					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient

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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