Exam question 3 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

State the commitment undertaken by the signatories to the Paris Agreement of 2015.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, undertake · To what, where: commitment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 21 «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 commitment	det
3	commitment	commitment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commitment	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 signatories	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 signatories	det
7	signatories	signatory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 undertaken	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Agreement	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Agreement	det
10	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Agreement	compound
11	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undertaken	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 2015	case
13	2015	2015	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 Agreement	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the commitment					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent commitment=Topic
2	undertake	participle		the commitment not said here				by the signatories; to the Paris Agreement of 2015	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

To abolish every petrol vehicle and every power station in every member state within a single year

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 abolish	mark
2	abolish	abolish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 vehicle	det
4	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vehicle	compound
5	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 abolish	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 station	cc
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 station	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 station	compound
9	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vehicle	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 state	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 state	det
12	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 state	compound
13	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 abolish	obl
14	within	within	ADP	_	17 year	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 year	amod
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 abolish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abolish	to-infinitive		every petrol vehicle and every power station		every member state	year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vehicle=Theme

Option 2

To guarantee that no snow shall fall in any member state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 guarantee	mark
2	guarantee	guarantee	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fall	mark
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 guarantee	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 state	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 state	det
10	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 state	compound
11	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guarantee	to-infinitive							vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
2	fall	shall	no snow			any member state			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in state=Location

Option 3

To relocate all power stations to the city of Paris

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 relocate	mark
2	relocate	relocate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stations	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stations	compound
5	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 relocate	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relocate	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Paris	case
10	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 city	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relocate	to-infinitive		all power stations				to the city of Paris	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To endeavour to hold warming well below two degrees, and ideally to one and a half

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 endeavour	mark
2	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hold	advcl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	warming	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hold	xcomp
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 warming	advmod
7	below	below	ADP	_	9 degrees	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 degrees	nummod
9	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 one	cc
12	ideally	ideally	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hold	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 half	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 half	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	endeavour	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	one and a half			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	warm	gerund		two degrees	well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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