Exam question 3 · Cheating at games and sport

Identify the cricketing practice whereby a batter who knows himself to be out departs without awaiting the umpire's decision.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, batter, umpire · What happens: identify, cricket, know, be, depart, await · To what, where: cricketing practice, himself, decision · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 93 «Cheating at games and sport» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 practice	det
3	cricketing	cricket	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 practice	amod
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	14 departs	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 batter	det
7	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 departs	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 batter	acl:relcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 knows	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 out	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 out	cop
13	out	out	ADV	_	9 knows	ccomp
14	departs	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 awaiting	mark
16	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 departs	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 umpire	det
18	umpire	umpire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 decision	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 umpire	case
20	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awaiting	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the cricketing practice		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme
2	cricket	gerund				tree rules
3	know	present	a batter	himself = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
4	is	to-infinitive			out property	tree rules
5	depart	present	a batter		whereby property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	await	gerund	a batter not said here	the umpire's decision		tree rules
7	decide		the umpire			nom decision «act transitive»: poss=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

Walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Fielding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fielding	fielding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Bowling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bowling	bowling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Appealing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Appealing	appeal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appeal	gerund							vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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