Exam question 1 · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

Identify the appropriate response where a person offers a child a cigarette, a vape or alcohol.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, offer · To what, where: appropriate response, cigarette, child

This is exam question 1 of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 offers	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offers	nsubj
8	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 response	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offers	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cigarette	det
12	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offers	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vape	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vape	det
15	vape	vape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cigarette	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 alcohol	cc
17	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cigarette	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	offer	present	a person	a cigarette and a vape or alcohol	a child				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent child=Goal cigarette=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

To accept but refrain from using it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 accept	mark
2	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 refrain	cc
4	refrain	refrain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 accept	conj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 using	mark
6	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 refrain	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	accept	to-infinitive		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	refrain	infinitive		vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	gerund	it	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

To accept in order to fit in with the group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 accept	mark
2	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 order	case
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accept	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fit	mark
6	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 accept	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 fit	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 group	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 group	det
10	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	to-infinitive				order			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fit in	to-infinitive						with the group	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To keep it for later use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 use	case
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 use	advmod
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		it				for use	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

To decline with «No thanks» and walk away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decline	mark
2	decline	decline	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 thanks	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
5	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 thanks	det
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decline	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 thanks	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walk	cc
9	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 decline	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	to-infinitive						with no thanks	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	walk away	infinitive						away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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