Exam question 4 · Being trusted and what to do with things you find
State which of the following describes how trust behaves once it has been lost.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State, trust · What happens: follow, describe, behave, lose · To what, where: trust
This is exam question 4 of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 following | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 following | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 following | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 State | acl |
| 6 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 behaves | advmod |
| 8 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 behaves | nsubj |
| 9 | behaves | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 describes | ccomp |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 14 lost | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 lost | aux:pass |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 behaves | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | State | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | describe | present | State | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | behave | present | trust | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | present · perfect · passive | trust | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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
It is restored at once by a single apology
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 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 restored | aux:pass |
| 3 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 restored | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 apology | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 apology | det |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 apology | amod |
| 9 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 restored | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | present · passive | a single apology | It | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 2
It returns automatically after one week
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 | 2 returns | nsubj |
| 2 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | automatically | automatically | ADV | _ | 2 returns | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 week | nummod |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returns | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | It | week | automatically property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It can never be regained under any circumstances, however honest one is
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 | 5 regained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 regained | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 regained | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 regained | aux:pass |
| 5 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 circumstances | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 circumstances | det |
| 8 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 honest | advmod |
| 11 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regained | parataxis |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 regained | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can · passive | It | any circumstances | regain property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It is quick to lose and slow to rebuild through continued truthfulness
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 quick | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lose | mark |
| 5 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slow | cc |
| 7 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quick | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rebuild | mark |
| 9 | rebuild | rebuild | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 slow | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 truthfulness | case |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 truthfulness | amod |
| 12 | truthfulness | truthfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rebuild | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | rebuild | to-infinitive | continued truthfulness | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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