Exam question 3 · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

Identify the principal reason for exercising care about what is shown during a video call.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal reason · What happens: identify, exercise, show · To what, where: principal reason, care

This is exam question 3 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	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	SCONJ	_	6 exercising	mark
6	exercising	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 reason	acl
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exercising	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 exercising	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shown	aux:pass
11	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 what	acl:relcl
12	during	during	ADP	_	15 call	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 call	det
14	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	compound
15	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shown	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	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	exercise	gerund	the principal reason not said here	care		about the principal reason	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
3	show	present · passive			during a video call		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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

Cameras turn off by themselves after five minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 turn	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 themselves	case
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 turn	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	present	Cameras				minute	by Cameras = camera	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Only the person speaking can be seen by others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 person	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	nsubj:pass
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 person	acl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund	the person not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	can · passive	others	the person					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Anything on the call can be screenshotted or recorded and shared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 screenshotted	nsubj:pass
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 call	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 call	det
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anything	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 screenshotted	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 screenshotted	aux:pass
7	screenshotted	screenshott	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 recorded	cc
9	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 screenshotted	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shared	cc
11	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 screenshotted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	screenshott	can · passive	Anything	tree rules
2	record	participle		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	share	participle		tree rules

Option 4

Video calls show only faces and nothing else at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	compound
2	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 faces	advmod
5	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 faces	conj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Video calls	faces		all			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient

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