Exam question 1 · Ice on ponds and cold water in winter

Identify the recommendation of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents in respect of ice upon inland waters.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recommend, respect · To what, where: recommendation, respect, Royal Society, ice

This is exam question 1 of lesson 74 «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» 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	3 recommendation	det
3	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Society	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Society	det
6	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Society	amod
7	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 recommendation	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 Prevention	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prevention	det
10	Prevention	Prevention	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Accidents	case
12	Accidents	Accident	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 Prevention	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 respect	case
14	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 ice	case
16	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 respect	nmod
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 waters	case
18	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 waters	amod
19	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ice	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the recommendation of the Royal Society	respect of ice upon inland waters	for the Prevention of Accidents	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent recommendation=Theme
2	recommend			the Royal Society			nom recommendation «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	respect			ice upon inland waters			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

Ice may be crossed in the month of January

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 crossed	aux:pass
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 month	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 January	case
9	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 month	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	may · passive		Ice			month		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Ice may be crossed if it supports a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 crossed	aux:pass
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 supports	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 supports	nsubj
7	supports	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 supports	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	may · passive		Ice					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	support a condition, not said to happen	present	Ice	a stone					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus

Option 3

Ice may be crossed in pairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 crossed	aux:pass
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 pairs	case
6	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	may · passive		Ice				in pairs	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in pair=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No person is to venture onto such ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 venture	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 venture	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 venture	mark
5	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 ice	case
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ice	amod
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 venture	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no person			such ice		venture property	tree rules

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