Exam question 4 · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

Ascertain the characteristics of a good compliment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: characteristics

This is exam question 4 of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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 characteristics	det
3	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 compliment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 compliment	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 compliment	amod
7	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 characteristics	nmod
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 characteristics of a good compliment					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characteristic=Topic

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

It is vague and exaggerated

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 vague	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vague	cop
3	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 exaggerated	cc
5	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 vague	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					vague property	tree rules
2	exaggerate	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is specific and true

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 specific	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 specific	cop
3	specific	specific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 true	cc
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 specific	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					specific property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It concerns only appearance

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 concerns	nsubj
2	concerns	concern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 appearance	advmod
4	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 concerns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	concern	present	It	appearance					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appearance=Experiencer

Option 4

It is given in order to obtain favours

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 obtain	mark
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	advcl
8	favours	favour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It		order			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	obtain	to-infinitive		favours					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset favour=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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