Exam question 1 · Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret

Identify the circumstance in which the communication of information concerning another person to a trusted adult does not constitute gossip.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, information, communication · What happens: identify, concern, trust, not constitute, communicate · To what, where: circumstance, person, gossip

This is exam question 1 of lesson 50 «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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 circumstance	det
3	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 constitute	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 communication	det
7	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 constitute	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 information	case
9	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 communication	nmod
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 information	acl
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 adult	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
15	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 adult	amod
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obl
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 constitute	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 constitute	advmod
19	constitute	constitute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 circumstance	appos
20	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 constitute	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the circumstance			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent circumstance=Theme
2	concern	gerund	information not said here	another person		to a trusted adult	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer
3	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not constitute	present · do-support	the communication of information	gossip	the circumstance		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gossip=Pivot
5	communicate		information				nom communication «communication intransitive»: of=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

Where the information concerns possessions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 possessions	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 concerns	det
3	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 concerns	compound
4	concerns	concern	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 possessions	compound
5	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Where the adult has requested entertainment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 requested	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requested	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 requested	aux
5	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requested	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	present · perfect	the adult	entertainment					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent entertainment=Recipient

Option 3

Where the information is especially amusing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 amusing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 information	det
3	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amusing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 amusing	cop
5	especially	especially	ADV	_	6 amusing	advmod
6	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the information					amusing, especially property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Where that person may be in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 danger	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 danger	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 danger	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 danger	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 danger	case
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	that person			danger			tree rules

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