Exam question 4 · Losing well and winning well

Determine the conduct most appropriate for a team whose victory is assured by a considerable margin in a junior fixture.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, considerable margin · What happens: determine, assure · To what, where: conduct, victory

This is exam question 4 of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 appropriate	advmod
5	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 conduct	amod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 team	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 team	det
8	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	obl
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 victory	nmod:poss
10	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assured	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 assured	aux:pass
12	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 team	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 margin	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 margin	det
15	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 margin	amod
16	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assured	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 fixture	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fixture	det
19	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fixture	amod
20	fixture	fixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 margin	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the conduct					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
2	assure	present · passive	a considerable margin in a junior fixture	victory					vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

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 right answer

Distribution of possession and experimentation with positions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Distribution	distribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 possession	case
3	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Distribution	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 experimentation	cc
5	experimentation	experimentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Distribution	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 positions	case
7	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 experimentation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distribute			possession					nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Withdrawal from the field of play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 field	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Withdrawal	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 play	case
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 field	nmod

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

Option 3

Maximisation of the margin of victory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maximisation	maximisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 margin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 margin	det
4	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Maximisation	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 victory	case
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 margin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	maximise			the margin of victory					nom maximisation «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Commentary upon the deficiencies of the opponent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commentary	commentary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 deficiencies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deficiencies	det
4	deficiencies	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Commentary	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 opponent	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 opponent	det
7	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deficiencies	nmod

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

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