Exam question 3 · Greeting neighbours and new people

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning entry into a neighbour's garden without permission.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, garden, entry

This is exam question 3 of lesson 123 «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 garden	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 neighbour	det
15	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 garden	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 neighbour	case
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 permission	case
19	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	a neighbour's garden	without permission	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	entry			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus entry=Experiencer

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 acceptable when nobody is home

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 acceptable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acceptable	cop
3	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 home	advmod
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 home	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 home	cop
7	home	home	ADV	_	3 acceptable	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					acceptable property	tree rules
2	is	present	nobody					home property	tree rules

Option 2

It is polite if one is very quiet

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 polite	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 polite	cop
3	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 quiet	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 quiet	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 quiet	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 quiet	advmod
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 polite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						polite property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	one					quiet property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is rude and amounts to trespassing

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 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 amounts	cc
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rude	conj
6	to	to	SCONJ	_	7 trespassing	mark
7	trespassing	trespass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rude	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	trespass	gerund							tree rules

Option 4

It is permitted if a ball has gone in

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 permitted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 permitted	aux:pass
3	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 permitted	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	present · passive		It					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go in a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	a ball						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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