Exam question 3 · Reading faces and voices

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning disagreement between words and body language.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, disagreement

This is exam question 3 of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
13	between	between	ADP	_	14 words	case
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 disagreement	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 language	cc
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 language	compound
17	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disagreement	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		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	disagreement and body language	between words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus disagreement=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

Where the two diverge, the words are invariably the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 diverge	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 diverge	nummod
4	diverge	diverge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 truth	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 truth	cop
9	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	11 truth	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 truth	det
11	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the words	the truth				invariably property	tree rules

Option 2

Body language conveys no information of any kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 language	compound
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveys	nsubj
3	conveys	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 information	det
5	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveys	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 information	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	present	Body language	no information of any kind					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent information=Topic
2	inform		any kind						nom information «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Where the two diverge, the body is frequently nearer to the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 nearer	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 diverge	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 diverge	nummod
4	diverge	diverge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nearer	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 body	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 diverge	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nearer	cop
9	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	10 nearer	advmod
10	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 truth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nearer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the two diverge and the body					to the truth; frequently, near property	tree rules

Option 4

Words and body language never diverge in children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 diverge	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 language	cc
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 language	compound
4	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Words	conj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 diverge	advmod
6	diverge	diverge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 diverge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not diverge	infinitive	Words and body language					in children	vn differ-23.4 «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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