Exam question 4 · Compliments and respecting differences

Ascertain the subjects that are most appropriate for compliments.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, subjects · What happens: ascertain, be · To what, where: subjects

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 subjects	det
3	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 appropriate	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 appropriate	cop
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 appropriate	advmod
7	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 subjects	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 compliments	case
9	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 appropriate	obl
10	.	.	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 subjects					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	is	present	the subjects					for compliments; appropriate property	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

A person's height or skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 height	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 person	case
4	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 skin	cc
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 height	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A person's wealth and possessions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wealth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 person	case
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 possessions	cc
6	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wealth	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A person's body or weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 person	case
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 weight	cc
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Things a person chooses, such as effort, kindness or drawings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chooses	nsubj
4	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Things	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 effort	punct
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 effort	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Things	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kindness	punct
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effort	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 drawings	cc
12	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 effort	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	a person	Things such effort and kindness or drawings not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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