Exam question 3 · Big feelings in big people

Whereas an adult maintains, contrary to the evidence, that he is not lost, determine the emotion most probably responsible for his assertion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: adult, you · What happens: maintain, not lose, determine, assert · To what, where: adult, emotion

This is exam question 3 of lesson 36 «Big feelings in big people» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	4 maintains	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maintains	nsubj
4	maintains	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 determine	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 contrary	punct
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maintains	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 evidence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 evidence	det
9	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contrary	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 determine	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lost	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux:pass
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 lost	advmod
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 determine	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
17	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 emotion	det
19	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 determine	obj
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 responsible	advmod
21	probably	probably	ADV	_	22 responsible	advmod
22	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 emotion	amod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 assertion	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 assertion	nmod:poss
25	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 responsible	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	maintain	present	a adult		contrary property	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent
2	not lose	present · passive		adult		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	the emotion		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Topic
4	assert		adult			nom assertion «communication transitive»: poss=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

Loneliness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Jealousy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

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