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Exam question 3 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

It is given that a presenter is unable to answer a question posed by the audience. Identify the most appropriate course of action.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: presenter, you · What happens: give, be, answer, pose, identify · To what, where: It, question, appropriate course

This is exam question 3 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a presenter is unable to answer a question posed by the audience.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 unable	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 presenter	det
6	presenter	presenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unable	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unable	cop
8	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 answer	mark
10	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 unable	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 question	det
12	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answer	obj
13	posed	pose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 question	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 audience	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 audience	det
16	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 posed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	a presenter					unable property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	a presenter not said here	a question					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
4	pose	participle		a question not said here				by the audience	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Identify the most appropriate course of action.

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	5 course	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 course	amod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 action	case
7	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 course	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate course of action					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Invent a plausible answer forthwith and proceed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Invent	invent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 answer	det
3	plausible	plausible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answer	amod
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Invent	obj
5	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	1 Invent	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 proceed	cc
7	proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Invent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	imperative	you not said here	a plausible answer				forthwith property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Result
2	proceed	infinitive	you not said here						vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Acknowledge it and undertake to find out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Acknowledge	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 undertake	cc
4	undertake	undertake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Acknowledge	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 undertake	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 find	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	imperative	you not said here	it					vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	undertake	infinitive	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	find out	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Decline to acknowledge the question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 acknowledge	mark
3	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Decline	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acknowledge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	to-infinitive		the question					vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic

Option 4

Terminate the presentation at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Terminate	terminate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 presentation	det
3	presentation	presentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Terminate	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Terminate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	terminate	imperative	you not said here	the presentation					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presentation=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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