Exam question 4 · Lies that do real harm

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning age limits on apps and games.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 197 «Lies that do real harm» 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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 limits	amod
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 limits	compound
11	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 apps	case
13	apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 limits	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 games	cc
15	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 apps	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response				consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

They apply only to games played on computers at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 apply	nsubj
2	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 games	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 games	case
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 apply	obj
6	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 games	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 computers	case
8	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	present	They	games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	play	participle		games not said here		computers		at school	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They exist only so that companies can sell more to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exist	nsubj
2	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 exist	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 sell	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sell	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	aux
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 exist	advcl
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sell	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 adults	case
11	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	They						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sell	can	companies	more	adults				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Theme to adult=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They exist to protect children from unsafe content and contacts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 exist	nsubj
2	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 protect	mark
4	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 exist	advcl
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 protect	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 content	case
7	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 content	amod
8	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 protect	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 contacts	cc
10	contacts	contact	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 content	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	They						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive	They not said here		children			from unsafe content and contacts	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from content=Theme

Option 4

They are suggestions that children may safely ignore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suggestions	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suggestions	cop
3	suggestions	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ignore	obj
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ignore	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ignore	aux
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	8 ignore	advmod
8	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suggestions	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	suggestions					tree rules
2	ignore	may	children	suggestions				safely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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