Exam question 1 · Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home

Identify the principal deficiency in attributing the disappearance of a remote control to a child who was at school throughout the day.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child, remote control · What happens: identify, attribute, be, disappear · To what, where: principal deficiency, disappearance, school

This is exam question 1 of lesson 162 «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deficiency	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deficiency	amod
4	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 attributing	mark
6	attributing	attribute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 disappearance	det
8	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attributing	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 control	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 control	det
11	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 control	amod
12	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disappearance	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 child	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 control	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 school	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 school	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 school	case
19	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 child	conj
20	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attributing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal deficiency			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deficiency=Theme
2	attribute	gerund	you not said here	the disappearance of a remote control to a child and school		day	tree rules
3	is	past	a child and school		school		tree rules
4	disappear		a remote control to a child and school				nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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 remote control was of an unusual design

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 control	det
2	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 control	amod
3	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 design	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 design	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 design	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 design	det
7	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 design	amod
8	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the remote control					of a unusual design	tree rules

Option 2

The child had insufficient interest in television

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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 interest	amod
5	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 television	case
7	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 interest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the child	insufficient interest		television			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient

Option 3

The parent omitted to search the garden and the shed before accusing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 omitted	nsubj
3	omitted	omit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 search	mark
5	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 omitted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 search	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shed	det
10	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	conj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 accusing	mark
12	accusing	accuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 search	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	omit	past	the parent		vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	search	to-infinitive	the parent not said here	the garden and the shed	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent garden=Location
3	accuse	gerund	the parent not said here		vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The accusation preceded any examination of the evidence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 accusation	det
2	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 preceded	nsubj
3	preceded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 examination	det
5	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 preceded	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 evidence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evidence	det
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 examination	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	the accusation	any examination of the evidence					tree rules
2	examine			the evidence					nom examination «act transitive»: of=patient

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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