Exam question 2 · Playing fair and cheating in games

Identify the recommended response when another player is suspected of having moved too many squares.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recommend, suspect, have, move · To what, where: recommended response, player, moved many squares

This is exam question 2 of lesson 200 «Playing fair and cheating in games» 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 response	det
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 suspected	mark
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 player	det
7	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suspected	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suspected	aux:pass
9	suspected	suspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 having	mark
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 suspected	advcl
12	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 squares	amod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 squares	amod
15	squares	square	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 having	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the recommended response	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	recommend	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	suspect	present · passive		another player	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	have	gerund		moved many squares	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent square=Patient
5	move	participle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

Shouting that the player is a cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cheat	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 player	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cheat	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cheat	det
7	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund		the player					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Topic
2	is a	present	Shouting	a cheat					tree rules

Option 2

Moving extra squares oneself in return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 squares	csubj
2	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Moving	obj
3	squares	square	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	oneself	oneself	PRON	Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 squares	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 return	case
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squares	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		extra					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent extra=Theme
2	square	present	Moving	oneself		return			vn harmonize-22.6 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme oneself=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A calm remark such as "let's count again"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 remark	det
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remark	amod
3	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remark	amod
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 remark	appos
8	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 count	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's					tree rules
2	count in a quote	infinitive	's not said here				again		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Quitting the game and leaving at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quitting	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 leaving	cc
5	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Quitting	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	gerund		the game					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Source
2	leave	gerund							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location

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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