Exam question 4 · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

Ascertain the effect of boasting upon friendships.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, effect · What happens: ascertain, boast · To what, where: effect

This is exam question 4 of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 boasting	case
5	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 effect	acl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 friendships	case
7	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boasting	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the effect					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic
2	boast speech: other	gerund	the effect not said here					upon friendships	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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

It has no effect upon others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 others	case
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 effect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no effect				upon others	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 2

It invariably increases one's friends and one's standing among them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 increases	nsubj
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	3 increases	advmod
3	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 increases	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 standing	cc
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 standing	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	aux
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 increases	conj
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	It	one's friends				invariably property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer friend=Patient
2	stand	present · progressive	one					among friends = friend	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among they=Location

Option 3

It causes others to feel proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 causes	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	xcomp
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	others					tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	others not said here					proud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It causes others to feel small and drives friends away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 causes	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 causes	xcomp
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drives	cc
8	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 causes	conj
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drives	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 drives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	others		tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	others not said here		small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	drive away	present		friends	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

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