Exam question 1 · Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim
Which of the following most accurately characterises the authority ordinarily responsible for the provision of a school playground?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: school playground · What happens: follow, characteris, provide · To what, where: authority
This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 characterises | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 characterises | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 characterises | csubj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 accurately | advmod |
| 6 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 7 characterises | advmod |
| 7 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 authority | det |
| 9 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterises | obj |
| 10 | ordinarily | ordinarily | ADV | _ | 11 responsible | advmod |
| 11 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 authority | amod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 provision | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 provision | det |
| 14 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 responsible | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 playground | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 playground | det |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 playground | compound |
| 18 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 provision | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | the authority | accurately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | provide | a school playground | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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
The local council or school board
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 council | det |
| 2 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 council | amod |
| 3 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 board | cc |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 board | compound |
| 6 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 council | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The United Nations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Nations | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Nations | compound |
| 3 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The armed forces of the state
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forces | det |
| 2 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forces | amod |
| 3 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Prime Minister, acting in person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 acting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acting | punct |
| 5 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | gerund | the Prime Minister | in person | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
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