Exam question 4 · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments

State the response appropriate when offered a cigarette, a vape or alcohol.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: offer · To what, where: cigarette

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	nsubj
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 offered	mark
6	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 appropriate	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cigarette	det
8	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vape	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vape	det
11	vape	vape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cigarette	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 alcohol	cc
13	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cigarette	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appropriate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	participle		a cigarette and a vape or alcohol					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cigarette=Theme

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

To accept and conceal it from adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 accept	mark
2	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 conceal	cc
4	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 accept	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 conceal	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 adults	case
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 conceal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	to-infinitive							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	conceal	infinitive		it				from adults	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from adult=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To say «No thanks» and walk away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 thanks	punct
4	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 thanks	det
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 thanks	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walk	cc
8	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		no thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	walk away	infinitive						away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To accept a single try out of politeness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 accept	mark
2	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 try	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 try	amod
5	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accept	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 politeness	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 politeness	case
8	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	to-infinitive		a single try		politeness			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Theme

Option 4

To take it home for later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 take	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 later	case
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		it				home property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for late=Beneficiary

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