Exam question 1 · The YouTuber who is right about everything

Identify the principal error in accepting advice on nutrition from a person whose expertise lies in a building game.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, expertise · What happens: identify, accept, lie · To what, where: principal error, advice, nutrition, building game

This is exam question 1 of lesson 174 «The YouTuber who is right about everything» 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 error	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 error	amod
4	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 accepting	mark
6	accepting	accept	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	advcl
7	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepting	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 nutrition	case
9	nutrition	nutrition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepting	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 person	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepting	obl
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 expertise	nmod:poss
14	expertise	expertise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lies	nsubj
15	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 person	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 game	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 game	det
18	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 game	compound
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lies	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal error			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent error=Theme
2	accept	gerund	you not said here	advice	nutrition	from a person	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent advice=Theme from person=Source
3	lie	present	expertise		a building game		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in game=Location

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 person was too young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 young	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 young	advmod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the person					young property	tree rules

Option 2

The game was insufficiently popular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popular	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 popular	cop
4	insufficiently	insufficiently	ADV	_	5 popular	advmod
5	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the game					insufficiently, popular property	tree rules

Option 3

The advice was delivered in a video rather than in a printed book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 advice	det
2	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delivered	aux:pass
4	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 video	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 video	det
7	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	obl
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	4 delivered	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 rather	fixed
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 book	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 book	det
12	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 book	amod
13	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deliver	past · passive		the advice		a video		in a printed book	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	print	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Expertise in one field is treated as expertise in another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Expertise	expertise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treated	nsubj:pass
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 field	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 field	nummod
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Expertise	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 treated	aux:pass
6	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 expertise	case
8	expertise	expertise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treated	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 treated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present · passive		Expertise in one field		another		as expertise	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as expertise=Attribute

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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