Exam question 3 · Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning reports which provoke immediate anger in the reader.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, concerning reports · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, provoke · To what, where: response, immediate anger, reader

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 reports	amod
12	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 facts	conj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 provoke	nsubj
14	provoke	provoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reports	acl:relcl
15	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 anger	amod
16	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 provoke	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 reader	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reader	det
19	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 provoke	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts and concerning reports; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	provoke	present	concerning reports	immediate anger	the reader		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anger=Experiencer

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

They may be designed to provoke sharing, and warrant caution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 designed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 designed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 designed	aux:pass
4	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 provoke	mark
6	provoke	provoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 designed	advcl
7	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 provoke	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caution	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 caution	cc
10	warrant	warrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caution	compound
11	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	design	may · passive	They	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	provoke	to-infinitive		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	share	gerund		tree rules

Option 2

They are published exclusively by official sources

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 published	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 published	aux:pass
3	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 published	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sources	case
6	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sources	amod
7	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 published	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	publish	present · passive	official sources	They				exclusively property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

Option 3

They ought to be shared prior to being read in full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shared	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shared	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	5 shared	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shared	aux:pass
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	9 read	mark
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 prior	fixed
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 read	aux:pass
9	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shared	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 full	case
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	ought · passive		They					tree rules
2	read	gerund · passive				full			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»

Option 4

They are invariably more accurate than calm reports

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accurate	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accurate	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 accurate	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 accurate	advmod
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 reports	case
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reports	amod
8	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accurate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					than calm reports; accurate, 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.

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