Exam question 3 · Greeting friends and relatives

Whereas a relative remarks "Look how much you have grown!", determine a fitting reply.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: remark, look, grow, determine · To what, where: much, fitting reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 122 «Greeting friends and relatives» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	3 relative	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 relative	det
3	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remarks	obl
4	remarks	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Look	punct
6	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 remarks	parataxis
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Look	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 grown	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 grown	aux
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Look	ccomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Look	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Look	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 Look	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reply	det
17	fitting	fitting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reply	amod
18	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remarks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remark speech: express	present			whereas a relative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	infinitive		much		tree rules
3	grow in a quote	present · perfect	you			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	determine	infinitive		a fitting reply		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=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

Silence, with a turn of the head away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 turn	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 turn	det
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Silence	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	1 Silence	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A smile and "Thank you" or "I know!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 smile	det
2	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Thank	cc
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Thank	punct
5	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 smile	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 Thank	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Thank	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Thank	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	know in a quote	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

"You have grown a great deal older, too"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 older	obl:unmarked
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grown	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	4 grown	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	present · perfect	You					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

"That is a rude thing for you to say"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a rude thing				for you	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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