Exam question 1 · Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no

Identify the principal hazards associated with the practice known as tombstoning.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal · What happens: identify, hazard, associate, know · To what, where: practice

This is exam question 1 of lesson 75 «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» 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 principal	det
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hazards	nsubj
4	hazards	hazard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	acl:relcl
5	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hazards	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 practice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 practice	det
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 associated	obl
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 practice	acl
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 tombstoning	case
11	tombstoning	tombstoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hazard	present	the principal			vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	associate	participle	the principal not said here		with the practice	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with practice=Co-Patient
4	know	participle		the practice not said here	as tombstoning	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as tombstoning=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 · ← Mova's choice

The risk of mild sunburn alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 risk	det
2	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sunburn	case
4	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sunburn	amod
5	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 risk	nmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 sunburn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	risk			mild sunburn					nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Variable depth owing to tides and submerged rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Variable	variable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 depth	amod
2	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	owing	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 depth	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 tides	case
5	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owing	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rocks	cc
7	submerged	submerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rocks	amod
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tides	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	gerund	Variable depth not said here					to tides and submerged rocks goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to tide=Goal
2	submerge	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The excessive warmth of coastal waters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warmth	det
2	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warmth	amod
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 waters	case
5	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 waters	amod
6	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warmth	nmod

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

Option 4

The prohibition of photography at harbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 photography	case
4	photography	photography	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prohibition	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 harbours	case
6	harbours	harbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prohibition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit			photography		harbours			nom prohibition «communication transitive»: of=patient at=place

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