Exam question 2 · The rumour that grows
Determine the most reliable source of information concerning the arrangements for a school trip.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, information · What happens: determine, concern · To what, where: reliable source, arrangements
This is exam question 2 of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 source | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 reliable | advmod |
| 4 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 source | amod |
| 5 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 information | case |
| 7 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 source | nmod |
| 8 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 information | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrangements | det |
| 10 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 concerning | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 trip | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trip | det |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trip | compound |
| 14 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concerning | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the reliable source of information | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Topic | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | information not said here | the arrangements | for a school trip | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus arrangement=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
A message in a class group chat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 message | det |
| 2 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chat | det |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 group | compound |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chat | compound |
| 7 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 message | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Conversation among pupils on the bus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 3 pupils | case |
| 3 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Conversation | nmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bus | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bus | det |
| 6 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pupils | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A relative attending a different school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 relative | det |
| 2 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 relative | acl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 school | det |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 school | amod |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | gerund | a relative not said here | a different school | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme school=Goal |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The school office, letter or website
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 office | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 office | compound |
| 3 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 letter | punct |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 office | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 website | cc |
| 7 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 office | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/e2/