Exam question 3 · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

It is given that a child is challenged to perform a dangerous act for a dare. Select the response consistent with established guidance.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, challenge, perform, select, establish · To what, where: It, child, dangerous act, response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 284 «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a child is challenged to perform a dangerous act for a dare.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 challenged	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 challenged	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 challenged	aux:pass
8	challenged	challenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 perform	mark
10	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 challenged	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 act	det
12	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 act	amod
13	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perform	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 dare	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dare	det
16	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perform	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive	It		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	challenge	present · passive	a child		tree rules
3	perform	to-infinitive	a dangerous act	for a dare	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent act=Theme for dare=Beneficiary

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.

Sentence 2: Select the response consistent with established guidance.

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 guidance	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 guidance	amod
7	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	.	.	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

The options

Option 1

The child shall attempt a lesser version of it

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	4 attempt	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 attempt	aux
4	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 version	det
6	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 version	amod
7	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attempt	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 version	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attempt	shall	the child	a lesser version of version					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The child shall perform it only if the other children are watching

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	4 perform	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 perform	aux
4	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perform	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	12 watching	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 watching	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 watching	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 watching	aux
12	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 perform	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	shall	the child	it					vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	watch a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	the other children						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The child may decline, since health matters more than proving anything

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	4 decline	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 decline	aux
4	decline	decline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 matters	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 matters	mark
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 matters	nsubj
8	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 decline	ccomp
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 matters	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 proving	mark
11	proving	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 decline	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 proving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	decline	may	the child		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	matter	present	health		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	prove	gerund	the child not said here	anything	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 4

The child must comply to retain their friends

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	4 comply	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 comply	aux
4	comply	comply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 retain	mark
6	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 comply	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 retain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comply	must	the child						tree rules
2	retain	to-infinitive	the child not said here	their friends					tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/284-facts-opinions-and-saying-no-to-dares/e3/