Exam question 3 · Honest work at school

Select the response consistent with established practice where a teacher, in error, has awarded a pupil marks not earned.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, establish, award, not earn · To what, where: teacher

This is exam question 3 of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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	21 earned	nsubj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	amod
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 awarded	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 teacher	det
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awarded	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 error	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 error	case
13	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teacher	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 teacher	punct
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 awarded	aux
16	awarded	award	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pupil	det
18	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awarded	obj
19	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 earned	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 earned	advmod
21	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Select	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	award	present · perfect · passive		a teacher and error	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal pupil=Theme
4	not earn	present	the response		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The pupil is entitled to retain the marks in silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entitled	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 entitled	aux:pass
4	entitled	entitle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 retain	mark
6	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 entitled	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marks	det
8	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 retain	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 silence	case
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entitle	present · passive		the pupil					tree rules
2	retain	to-infinitive		the marks		silence			tree rules

Option 2

The pupil ought to inform only fellow pupils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inform	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 inform	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 inform	mark
5	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 pupils	advmod
7	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pupils	amod
8	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 inform	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	ought	the pupil		fellow pupils				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pupil=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The pupil ought to inform the teacher of the error

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inform	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 inform	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 inform	mark
5	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inform	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 error	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 error	det
10	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teacher	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	ought	the pupil		the teacher of the error				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 4

The pupil ought to request further marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 request	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 request	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 request	mark
5	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 marks	amod
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 request	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	ought	the pupil	further marks					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mark=Recipient

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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