Exam question 2 · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

Identify the principal reason for which a resident who departs and returns at irregular hours ought not to be regarded with suspicion.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, resident · What happens: identify, depart, return, not regard · To what, where: principal reason, resident

This is exam question 2 of lesson 43 «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 regarded	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 resident	det
8	resident	resident	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 regarded	nsubj:pass
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 departs	nsubj
10	departs	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 resident	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 returns	cc
12	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 departs	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hours	amod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 returns	obl
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 regarded	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 regarded	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	20 regarded	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 regarded	aux:pass
20	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 suspicion	case
22	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 regarded	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	depart	present	a resident				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	present	a resident not said here		hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not regard	ought · passive	you not said here	a resident		for the principal reason; with suspicion	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute

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 right answer

Irregular hours are commonly attributable to shift employment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hours	amod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 attributable	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 attributable	cop
4	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	5 attributable	advmod
5	attributable	attributable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shift	mark
7	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attributable	csubj
8	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Irregular hours					attributable, commonly property	tree rules
2	shift	to-infinitive		employment					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer employment=Patient

Option 2

Residents are obliged to publish their working hours to neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Residents	resident	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 obliged	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	aux:pass
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 publish	mark
5	publish	publish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hours	nmod:poss
7	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hours	compound
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 publish	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 neighbours	case
10	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 publish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		Residents					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	publish	to-infinitive					hour	to neighbours	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Irregular hours are prohibited by the regulations of the council

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hours	amod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prohibited	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prohibited	aux:pass
4	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 regulations	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 regulations	det
7	regulations	regulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prohibited	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 council	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 council	det
10	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regulations	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive	the regulations of the council	Irregular hours					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme
2	regulate			the council					nom regulation «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Persons who work at night are invariably exempt from the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 exempt	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Persons	acl:relcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 exempt	cop
7	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	8 exempt	advmod
8	exempt	exempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exempt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Persons				night		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Persons			the law		exempt, invariably property	tree rules

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/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/e2/