Exam question 2 · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

Identify the principal reason for which hoax calls to an emergency number are prohibited.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hoax · What happens: identify, call, prohibit · To what, where: principal reason, emergency number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 calls	obl
7	hoax	hoax	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calls	nsubj
8	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 number	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 number	det
11	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 number	compound
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calls	obl
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prohibited	aux:pass
14	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 calls	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	call	present	hoax		a emergency number	for the principal reason	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to number=Recipient clause=Topic
3	prohibit	present · passive	hoax not said here				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»

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 · ✓ the right answer

They divert call takers from persons in genuine danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 divert	nsubj
2	divert	divert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	reparandum
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	takers	taker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 persons	case
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 danger	case
8	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 danger	amod
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divert	present	They						tree rules
2	call	present		takers		genuine danger		from persons	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent taker=Theme from person=Source

Option 2

They are merely considered impolite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 considered	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 considered	aux:pass
3	merely	merely	ADV	_	4 considered	advmod
4	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	impolite	impolite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 considered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consider	present · passive		They				impolite, merely property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute

Option 3

They incur a small charge to the caller's family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 incur	nsubj
2	incur	incur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 charge	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 charge	amod
5	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 incur	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 family	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 caller	det
8	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 family	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 caller	case
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 incur	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	incur	present	They	a small charge				to the caller's family	tree rules

Option 4

They cause the telephone line to fail for the whole of the district

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cause	nsubj
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 line	det
4	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	compound
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fail	mark
7	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cause	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 whole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 whole	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fail	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 district	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 district	det
13	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	They	the telephone line					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition line=Patient
2	fail	to-infinitive	They not said here					for the whole	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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