Exam question 1 · Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories

Identify the party to whom the disclosure of the cause of a person's death properly belongs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, disclosure, person · What happens: identify, belong, disclose, cause, die · To what, where: party, cause, death

This is exam question 1 of lesson 48 «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» 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	3 party	det
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 disclosure	det
7	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 belongs	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cause	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cause	det
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disclosure	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 death	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 death	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 person	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nmod
16	properly	properly	ADV	_	17 belongs	advmod
17	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whom	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the party		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent party=Theme to whom=be'
2	belong	present	the disclosure of the cause of a person's death		properly property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	disclose			the cause of a person's death		nom disclosure «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	cause			a person's death		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
5	die		a person			nom death «event intransitive»: 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

The operators of internet forums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 operators	det
2	operators	operator	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 forums	case
4	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forums	compound
5	forums	forum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 operators	nmod

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

Option 2

Any person present at the funeral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 present	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 present	compound
3	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 funeral	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 present	nmod

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

Option 3

The readers of popular newspapers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 readers	det
2	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 newspapers	case
4	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 newspapers	amod
5	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 readers	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The family of the deceased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 deceased	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deceased	det
5	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 family	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decease	participle		the family not said here					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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