Exam question 1 · Picking teams and being picked last

Identify the principal determinant of the order in which children are selected by child captains.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child captains · What happens: identify, select, determine · To what, where: principal determinant, children, order

This is exam question 1 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 determinant	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 determinant	amod
4	determinant	determinant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 order	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 determinant	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 selected	obl
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 selected	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 selected	aux:pass
12	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 order	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 captains	case
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 captains	compound
15	captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 selected	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal determinant of the order		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent determinant=Theme
2	select	present · passive	child captains	children	the order	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	determine			the order		nom determinant «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Alphabetical order of surname

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 order	amod
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 surname	case
4	surname	surname	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 order	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order			surname					nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The instructions of the head teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 instructions	det
2	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 teacher	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teacher	compound
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 instructions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct			the head teacher					nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Friendship and mood rather than ability

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 mood	cc
3	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Friendship	conj
4	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 ability	cc
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 rather	fixed
6	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Friendship	conj

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

Option 4

Measured athletic ability

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	athletic	athletic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ability	amod
3	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Measured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	participle		athletic ability					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ability=Value

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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