Exam question 2 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a hotel whose lift omits the numeral thirteen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts, lift · What happens: select, establish, concern, omit · To what, where: response, hotel, numeral thirteen

This is exam question 2 of lesson 161 «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hotel	det
11	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 lift	nmod:poss
13	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 omits	nsubj
14	omits	omit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hotel	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thirteen	det
16	numeral	numeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thirteen	compound
17	thirteen	thirteen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 omits	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a hotel		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hotel=Experiencer
4	omit	present	lift	the numeral thirteen		vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirteen=Theme

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 floor designated fourteen is in fact the thirteenth storey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fact	nsubj
3	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floor	acl
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 designated	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fact	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 fact	case
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storey	det
9	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 storey	amod
10	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fact	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	participle	the floor not said here	fourteen					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourteen=Theme
2	is	present	the floor			fact		the thirteenth storey nmod	tree rules

Option 2

The floor designated twelve is the thirteenth storey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storey	nsubj
3	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floor	acl
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 designated	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 storey	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storey	det
7	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 storey	amod
8	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	participle	the floor not said here	twelve					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Theme
2	is a	present	the floor	the thirteenth storey					tree rules

Option 3

The thirteenth storey has been removed entirely from the structure of the building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storey	det
2	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storey	amod
3	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 removed	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 removed	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 removed	aux:pass
6	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 removed	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 structure	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 structure	det
10	structure	structure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 removed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 building	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 building	det
13	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 structure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present · perfect · passive		the thirteenth storey		the structure of the building		entirely property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from structure=Source

Option 4

The floor designated fourteen is the fourteenth storey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storey	nsubj
3	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floor	acl
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 designated	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 storey	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storey	det
7	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 storey	amod
8	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	participle	the floor not said here	fourteen					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourteen=Theme
2	is a	present	the floor	the fourteenth storey					tree rules

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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