Exam question 2 · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments

Identify the principal reason for which a child threatened with «Don't tell or it will be worse» should nevertheless tell a trusted adult.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child, principal reason · What happens: identify, threaten, not tell, be, tell, trust · To what, where: trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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	23 tell	nsubj:outer
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 threatened	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threatened	nsubj
9	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 tell	mark
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 threatened	advcl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 worse	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 worse	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 worse	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 worse	cop
19	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 threatened	conj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 threatened	punct
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 adult	det
25	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 adult	amod
26	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	threaten	participle	a child		for the principal reason	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support	a child not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	future	child		bad property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	should	the principal reason	a trusted adult	nevertheless property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
6	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Telling is permitted only after a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 permitted	csubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 permitted	aux:pass
3	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 permitted	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 permitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	permit	present · passive	Telling				week		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»

Option 2

Telling always makes matters worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Telling	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund						always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Telling	matters				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product

Option 3

Adults cannot act unless the bully agrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 act	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 act	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 act	advmod
4	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 agrees	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bully	det
7	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agrees	nsubj
8	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 act	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not act	can	Adults						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	present	the bully						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bullies rely upon silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rely	nsubj
2	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely	present	Bullies					upon silence	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: 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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