Exam question 1 · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

Identify the appropriate conduct where an unknown number calls a child's phone.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, unknown number · What happens: identify, call · To what, where: appropriate conduct, phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 222 «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 conduct	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 calls	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 number	amod
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calls	nsubj
9	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 conduct	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 phone	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 child	case
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calls	obj
14	.	.	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 conduct					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	call	present	a unknown number	a child's phone					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient

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

The child answers and supplies passwords if asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 supplies	cc
5	supplies	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answers	conj
6	passwords	password	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 supplies	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 asked	mark
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 supplies	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	the child		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	supply	present	the child not said here	passwords	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent password=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	participle	the child not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A parent answers or ignores it, as it may be a scammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 ignores	cc
5	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answers	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ignores	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scammer	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 scammer	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scammer	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 scammer	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 scammer	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 scammer	det
13	scammer	scammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ignores	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	a parent		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ignore	present	a parent not said here	parent	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is a	may	parent	a scammer	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The child answers politely and gives the family's address if it is requested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	politely	politely	ADV	_	3 answers	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gives	cc
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answers	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 address	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 family	case
10	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 requested	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 requested	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 requested	aux:pass
14	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gives	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	the child		politely property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	the child not said here	the family's address		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme
3	request a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		child		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient
4	address		the family			nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The child returns the call immediately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returns	nsubj
3	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 call	det
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returns	obj
6	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 returns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	the child	the call				immediately property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=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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