Exam question 3 · Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a st…

Whereas a photograph of a public figure is published without any account of its circumstances, determine the conclusion which this lesson commends.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lesson · What happens: publish, determine, commend, account · To what, where: photograph, conclusion, circumstances

This is exam question 3 of lesson 46 «Tabloids, «sources close to» and the photo that tells a story» 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	_	9 published	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 photograph	det
3	photograph	photograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 published	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 figure	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 figure	det
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 figure	amod
7	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 photograph	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 published	aux:pass
9	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 determine	advcl
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 account	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 account	det
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 published	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 circumstances	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 circumstances	nmod:poss
15	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 account	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 published	punct
17	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 conclusion	det
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 determine	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 commends	obj
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 lesson	det
22	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 commends	nsubj
23	commends	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 conclusion	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	publish	present · passive		a photograph of a public figure	without any account of photograph's circumstances	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	determine	imperative	you not said here	the conclusion		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conclusion=Topic
3	commend	present	this lesson	the conclusion		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	account			photograph's circumstances		nom account «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice

That the image alone proves the accompanying headline

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 image	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 image	det
3	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proves	nsubj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 image	advmod
5	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 headline	det
7	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 headline	amod
8	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	that image	the accompanying headline					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Theme
2	accompany	gerund							vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

That the image must have been taken by the figure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 image	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 image	det
3	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 figure	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 figure	det
10	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	must · perfect · passive	the figure	that image					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That the image alone may mislead as to what occurred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 image	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 image	det
3	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mislead	nsubj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 image	advmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mislead	aux
6	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 occurred	mark
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 occurred	nsubj
10	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mislead	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mislead	may	that image						vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	occur	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That the image is necessarily a forgery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 image	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 image	det
3	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgery	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 forgery	cop
5	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	7 forgery	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forgery	det
7	forgery	forgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that image	a forgery				necessarily 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.

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