Exam question 4 · Screens, diets, sofas and late nights

Determine what is thereby asserted when an adult who has been asleep declares "I was only resting my eyes".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, adult · What happens: determine, assert, be, declare, rest · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 29 «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 asserted	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asserted	aux:pass
4	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	5 asserted	advmod
5	asserted	assert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	ccomp
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 declares	mark
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 declares	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 asleep	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asleep	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 asleep	cop
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 adult	acl:relcl
13	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asserted	advcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 resting	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 resting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 resting	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 resting	advmod
18	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 declares	ccomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 resting	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 resting	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	assert	present · passive	you not said here		thereby property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: what=Theme
3	is	present · perfect	a adult		asleep property	tree rules
4	declare speech: other	present	a adult			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	rest in a quote	past · progressive	a adult = adult	my eyes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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

A request that the lights be extinguished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 request	det
2	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 extinguished	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lights	det
5	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 extinguished	nsubj:pass
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 extinguished	aux:pass
7	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 request	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extinguish	infinitive · passive	a request not said here	the lights					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

A report that the adult was awake throughout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 awake	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 adult	det
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awake	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 report	acl
8	throughout	throughout	PUNCT	_	2 report	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the adult	a report not said here				awake property	tree rules

Option 3

A medical statement concerning an eye condition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statement	det
2	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 statement	amod
3	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 statement	acl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 condition	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 condition	compound
7	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 concerning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	concern	gerund	a medical statement not said here	a eye condition					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus condition=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A humorous denial that the adult had fallen asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 denial	det
2	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 denial	amod
3	denial	denial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fallen	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fallen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fallen	aux
8	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 denial	acl:relcl
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fallen	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the adult	a humorous denial				asleep property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result

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