Exam question 4 · Picking teams and being picked last

In respect of a snake pick between captains A and B, state which captain makes the second and third selections.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make, respect · To what, where: second selections, respect, snake pick

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makes	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pick	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	compound
6	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	nmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 captains	case
8	captains	captain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pick	conj
9	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 B	det
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 B	cc
11	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 captains	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 state	punct
13	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 B	conj
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 captain	det
15	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 B	conj
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 selections	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 selections	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 third	cc
20	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 second	conj
21	selections	selection	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 makes	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		the second selections		respect of a snake pick and captains			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset selection=Product
2	respect			a snake pick and captains					nom respect «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

Captain A

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 Captain	det

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

Option 2

Neither captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The referee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 referee	det
2	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Captain B

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 B	compound
2	B	B	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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