Exam question 3 · Compliments and respecting differences

Select the response consistent with established practice where another person makes a racist joke.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: select, establish, make · To what, where: response, racist joke

This is exam question 3 of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 makes	advmod
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	nsubj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 practice	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 joke	det
13	racist	racist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 joke	amod
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	make	present	another person	a racist joke	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product

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

One remains silent and laughs later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remains	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 laughs	cc
5	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remains	conj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 laughs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	One					silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	present	One not said here					late property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

One laughs so as not to offend the speaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 laughs	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 offend	mark
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 offend	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 offend	mark
7	offend	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laughs	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speaker	det
9	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	One						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not offend	to-infinitive	One not said here	the speaker					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speaker=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One does not laugh and says it is not acceptable or tells an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 laugh	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 laugh	advmod
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 says	cc
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 acceptable	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 acceptable	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 acceptable	advmod
10	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 tells	cc
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 acceptable	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not laugh	present · do-support	One			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	One not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	it		acceptable property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

One repeats the joke to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 repeats	nsubj
2	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeats	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 others	case
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 repeats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	One	the joke	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Topic to other=Recipient

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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