Exam question 3 · Caring for the environment

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the period required for the decomposition of plastic.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, require, decompose · To what, where: response, period, plastic

This is exam question 3 of lesson 57 «Caring for the environment» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 period	det
13	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 period	acl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 decomposition	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 decomposition	det
17	decomposition	decomposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 required	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 plastic	case
19	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 decomposition	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	the period		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus period=Experiencer
5	require	participle		the period not said here	for the decomposition of plastic	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	decompose			plastic		nom decomposition «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

It is accomplished within a single season

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 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 season	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 season	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 season	amod
7	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accomplished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	present · passive		It			season		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

It is accomplished within a few days

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 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accomplished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	present · passive		It			day		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may require hundreds of years

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 require	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 require	aux
3	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 require	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	may	It	hundreds of years					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Precondition

Option 4

It never commences under any conditions

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 commences	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 commences	advmod
3	commences	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 conditions	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 conditions	det
6	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 commences	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not commence	present	It			any conditions			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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