Exam question 4 · Robots at work and at home

Ascertain the appropriate conduct of a child who observes an unattended and suspicious bag.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: ascertain, observe, conduct · To what, where: appropriate conduct, unattended bag, child

This is exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» of the technology 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conduct	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conduct	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 observes	nsubj
9	observes	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 child	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bag	det
11	unattended	unattended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bag	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 suspicious	cc
13	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 unattended	conj
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observes	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate conduct of a child	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
2	observe	present	a child	a unattended bag	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bag=Topic
3	conduct			a child	nom conduct «act 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 right answer

The child shall not touch it, shall move away and shall inform an adult

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 touch	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 touch	advmod
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 move	aux
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 touch	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 move	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 inform	cc
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 inform	aux
13	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 touch	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inform	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not touch	shall	the child	it			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	move away	shall	the child not said here			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	inform speech: other	shall	the child not said here		a adult		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

The child shall convey it without delay to a lost property office at the nearest station

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 convey	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 convey	aux
4	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 convey	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 delay	case
7	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 convey	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 office	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 office	det
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 office	amod
11	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 office	compound
12	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 convey	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 station	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 station	det
15	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 station	amod
16	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 convey	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	shall	the child	it	a lost property office	the nearest station		without delay	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to office=Recipient
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The child shall shake it in order to ascertain its contents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shake	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shake	aux
4	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shake	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shake	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ascertain	mark
9	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shake	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 contents	nmod:poss
11	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 ascertain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	shall	the child	it		order			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Trajectory
2	ascertain	to-infinitive	the child not said here	child's contents					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Topic

Option 4

The child shall open it in order to identify its owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 open	aux
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 open	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 identify	mark
9	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 open	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 owner	nmod:poss
11	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 identify	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	shall	the child	it		order			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in order=Location
2	identify	to-infinitive	the child not said here	child's owner					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent owner=Theme

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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