Exam question 3 · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

Select the response consistent with established practice concerning the last piece of food upon a shared plate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established practice · What happens: select, establish, concern, share · To what, where: response, last piece

This is exam question 3 of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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	1 Select	obj
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	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 practice	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 piece	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 piece	amod
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 piece	nmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 plate	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plate	det
16	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 plate	amod
17	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	established practice not said here	the last piece of food	upon a shared plate	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus piece=Experiencer
4	share	participle				tree rules

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

One takes it promptly, before any other person is able to do so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	obj
4	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	2 takes	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 able	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 able	mark
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 person	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 able	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 able	cop
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 takes	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	One	it	promptly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	any other person		able property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	any other person not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

One leaves it untouched in all cases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaves	obj
4	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cases	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cases	det
7	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	One	it		all cases		untouched property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in case=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One asks whether any other person would like it first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 like	mark
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 person	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 like	obj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 like	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	One						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	would	any other person	it				first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

One divides it without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 divides	nsubj
2	divides	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 divides	obj
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 asking	mark
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 divides	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	present	One	it					vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	One not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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