Exam question 2 · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises appropriate conduct upon breaking an item at a host's house?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, break · To what, where: appropriate conduct, item, house

This is exam question 2 of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 conduct	amod
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 breaking	mark
12	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 characterises	advcl
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 item	det
14	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breaking	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	19 house	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 host	det
17	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 host	case
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breaking	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	appropriate conduct		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	break	gerund	a item	a host's house		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer item=Patient

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

Blame the family pet for the accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pet	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pet	compound
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 accident	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 accident	det
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the family pet				for the accident	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent pet=Theme for accident=Attribute

Option 2

Hide the pieces and say nothing about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pieces	det
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the pieces					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	nothing				about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

Leave at once before anyone notices it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Leave	obl
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 notices	mark
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 notices	nsubj
6	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 notices	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location
2	notice	present	anyone	it					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell the adult straight away and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	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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