Exam question 4 · Editing and redrafting

Ascertain the most appropriate response to feedback received from a classmate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, appropriate response · What happens: ascertain, receive · To what, where: appropriate response, classmate

This is exam question 4 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» of the English 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 response	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 response	amod
5	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 feedback	case
7	feedback	feedback	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 received	obl
8	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 response	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 classmate	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 classmate	det
11	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 received	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic
2	receive	past	the appropriate response not said here			a classmate		to feedback	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from classmate=Source

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

Copy the classmate's work in its entirety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 classmate	det
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 classmate	case
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 entirety	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 entirety	nmod:poss
8	entirety	entirety	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	the classmate's work		work's entirety			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent work=Theme in entirety=Destination
2	work		the classmate						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Request that the classmate cease reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 reading	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cease	det
4	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cease	compound
5	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reading	compound
6	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Request	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reading		Request						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Consider it carefully and use what improves the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Consider	obj
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	1 Consider	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 use	cc
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Consider	conj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 improves	nsubj
7	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 work	det
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 improves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consider	imperative	you not said here	it	carefully property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
2	use	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
3	improve	present		the work		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent work=Patient

Option 4

Reject it immediately in all circumstances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reject	reject	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Reject	obj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	1 Reject	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 circumstances	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 circumstances	det
6	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reject	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reject	imperative	you not said here	it		all circumstances		immediately property	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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