Exam question 2 · School legends

Identify the party by whom the closure of a school on account of snowfall is ordinarily determined.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, closure, school · What happens: identify, be, close, account · To what, where: party, snowfall

This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «School legends» of the myths 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 party	det
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 closure	det
7	closure	closure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 determined	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 school	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 school	det
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 closure	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 account	case
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 school	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 snowfall	case
14	snowfall	snowfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 account	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 determined	cop
16	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	17 determined	advmod
17	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whom	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the party		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent party=Theme
2	is	present	the closure of a school on account of snowfall		determined, ordinarily property	tree rules
3	close		a school on account of snowfall			nom closure «act intransitive»: of=agent
4	account			snowfall		nom account «communication 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

The pupils, by means of a ballot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupils	det
2	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 means	case
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ballot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ballot	det
8	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the pupils					of a ballot	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The head teacher, having regard to safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	compound
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 having	punct
5	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 teacher	acl
6	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 safety	case
8	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regard	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	the head teacher not said here	regard				to safety	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Patient

Option 3

A statute prescribing a fixed depth of snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 statute	det
2	statute	statute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	prescribing	prescribe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 statute	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 depth	det
5	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 depth	amod
6	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prescribing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 snow	case
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prescribe	gerund	a statute not said here	a fixed depth of snow					tree rules
2	fix	participle							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The national weather service

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 service	det
2	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 service	amod
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 service	compound
4	service	service	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/24-school-legends/e2/