Exam question 4 · Mock ethics olympiad
State the principal reason for which olympiads confer awards in recognition of good sportsmanship.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: olympiads · What happens: confer, recognize · To what, where: awards, recognition, good sportsmanship
This is exam question 4 of lesson 50 «Mock ethics olympiad» of the religion ethics 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reason | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reason | amod |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 confer | obl |
| 7 | olympiads | olympiad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 confer | nsubj |
| 8 | confer | confer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | acl:relcl |
| 9 | awards | award | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 confer | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 recognition | case |
| 11 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confer | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sportsmanship | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sportsmanship | amod |
| 14 | sportsmanship | sportsmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recognition | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confer | present | olympiads | awards | recognition of good sportsmanship | for the State principal reason | tree rules | ||
| 2 | recognize | good sportsmanship | nom recognition «state 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 · ✓ the right answer
Character is held to be of no less account than the score attained
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | aux:pass |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 account | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 account | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 account | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 account | det |
| 8 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 account | amod |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 score | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 score | det |
| 12 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod |
| 13 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 score | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | Character | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | of no less account; than the score | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attain | participle | the score not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Such awards serve solely to console the teams which are defeated
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 awards | amod |
| 2 | awards | award | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 serve | nsubj |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 3 serve | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 console | mark |
| 6 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serve | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 teams | det |
| 8 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 serve | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 defeated | aux:pass |
| 11 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 teams | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present | Such awards | console | solely property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Attribute | |||
| 2 | defeat | present · passive | the teams | tree rules |
Option 3
Such awards are conferred upon the team which speaks at greatest length
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 awards | amod |
| 2 | awards | award | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 conferred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conferred | aux:pass |
| 4 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 team | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 team | det |
| 7 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conferred | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 speaks | nsubj |
| 9 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 team | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 greatest | case |
| 11 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 length | amod |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confer | present · passive | Such awards | upon the team | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | the team | greatest length | tree rules |
Option 4
The assessors are otherwise unable to determine a victor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 assessors | det |
| 2 | assessors | assessor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | cop |
| 4 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 5 unable | advmod |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 determine | mark |
| 7 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 victor | det |
| 9 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determine | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the assessors | otherwise, unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | determine | to-infinitive | the assessors not said here | a victor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victor=Topic |
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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