Exam question 4 · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences

Pursuant to encountering upsetting material online, ascertain the appropriate course of action.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: encounter, ascertain · To what, where: upsetting material, appropriate course

This is exam question 4 of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	3 encountering	advmod
2	to	to	SCONJ	_	3 encountering	mark
3	encountering	encounter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 material	amod
5	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 encountering	obj
6	online	online	ADV	_	3 encountering	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ascertain	punct
8	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 encountering	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 course	det
10	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 course	amod
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ascertain	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 action	case
13	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 course	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 encountering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encounter	gerund		upsetting material				online, pursuant property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer material=Stimulus
2	ascertain	infinitive		the appropriate course of action					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic

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

Continue viewing it in order to understand it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	viewing	view	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Continue	xcomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 viewing	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 understand	mark
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 in	fixed
6	to	to	PART	_	7 understand	mark
7	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 viewing	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	continue	imperative	you not said here		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	view	gerund	you not said here	it	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	understand	to-infinitive	you not said here	order	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Close the material and inform a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Close	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 inform	cc
5	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
7	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 adult	amod
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inform	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	the material		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient
2	inform speech: other	infinitive	you not said here		a trusted adult	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Remain silent so as not to lose access to the device

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remain	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 lose	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 lose	mark
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 lose	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Remain	advcl
8	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 device	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 device	det
11	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	imperative	you not said here					silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not lose	to-infinitive	you not said here	access				to the device	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Eventuality

Option 4

Share the material so that friends are warned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Share	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 warned	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 warned	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warned	aux:pass
8	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Share	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	the material					tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	present · passive		friends					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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