Exam question 3 · Routines, screen time and earning money

Select the response consistent with established practice for a party invitation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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	for	for	ADP	_	11 invitation	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 invitation	det
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invitation	compound
11	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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

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 reply is given on the day of the party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 party	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 party	det
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		a reply			day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

A reply is unnecessary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unnecessary	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unnecessary	cop
4	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a reply					unnecessary property	tree rules

Option 3

A reply is given only if attending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 attending	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 attending	mark
7	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 given	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		a reply					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	attend a condition, not said to happen	gerund							vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A reply is given by the date requested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 date	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 date	det
7	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
8	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 date	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive	the date	a reply					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	request	participle		the date not said here					vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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