Exam question 1 · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

Identify the principal reason for which one knocks upon a closed door and awaits a reply before entering.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: identify, knock, close, await, enter · To what, where: principal reason, closed door, reply

This is exam question 1 of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knocks	obl
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knocks	nsubj
8	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 door	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 door	amod
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knocks	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 awaits	cc
14	awaits	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knocks	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 reply	det
16	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awaits	obj
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 entering	mark
18	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 awaits	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	knock	present	one		a closed door	for the principal reason	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon door=Location
3	close	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	await	present	one not said here	a reply			tree rules
5	enter	gerund	one not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It is required only when visiting a neighbour

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 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 visiting	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 visiting	advmod
6	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 required	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 neighbour	det
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visiting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		It					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	visit	gerund		a neighbour					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every person is entitled to privacy within his own room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entitled	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 entitled	aux:pass
4	entitled	entitle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 privacy	case
6	privacy	privacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entitled	obl
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 room	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entitled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entitle	present · passive		every person				to privacy; within person's own room	tree rules

Option 3

Doors are damaged over time when they are opened without knocking first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 damaged	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 damaged	aux:pass
3	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 damaged	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 opened	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 opened	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	aux:pass
9	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 damaged	conj
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 knocking	mark
11	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 opened	advcl
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 knocking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present · passive	Doors	time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	open	present · passive	Doors = door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	knock	gerund			first property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Knocking ensures that the room is unoccupied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ensures	nsubj
2	ensures	ensure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 unoccupied	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unoccupied	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unoccupied	cop
7	unoccupied	unoccupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ensures	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ensure	present	Knocking						vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	the room					unoccupied property	tree rules

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