Exam question 4 · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning a "last entry" time.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 104 «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 entry	punct
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 entry	amod
15	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	compound
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 entry	punct
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here		time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

It denotes the time of the first admission

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denotes	nsubj
2	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denotes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 admission	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 admission	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 admission	amod
8	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	It				time		vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

It applies only upon Saturdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 applies	nsubj
2	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 Saturdays	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 Saturdays	case
5	Saturdays	saturday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 applies	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	present	It	Saturdays					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saturday=Theme

Option 3

It is invariably identical to closing time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 identical	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 identical	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 identical	advmod
4	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identical	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				time	identical, invariably property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It may fall before closing time, after which admission is refused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 closing	mark
5	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fall	advcl
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 refused	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 refused	mark
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 admission	det
10	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refused	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 refused	aux:pass
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fall	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fall	may	It			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	close	gerund			time	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	refuse	present · passive		which admission		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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