Exam question 2 · Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks

Identify the principal reason for which a patient tells doctors the truth about an injury.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, patient · What happens: identify, tell · To what, where: principal reason, truth, doctors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 312 «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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	9 tells	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 patient	det
8	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	nsubj
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
10	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tells	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 injury	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 injury	det
15	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 truth	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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	tell speech: assert	present	a patient	the truth	doctors			for the principal reason; about a injury	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient truth=Topic

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

Lying would increase the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 increase	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 increase	aux
3	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bill	det
5	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	increase	would		the bill					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer bill=Patient

Option 2

Doctors must report every injury to the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 report	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 report	aux
3	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 injury	det
5	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 report	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 police	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 police	det
8	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 report	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	must	Doctors	every injury	the police				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent injury=Topic to police=Recipient

Option 3

Doctors otherwise refuse to attend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refuse	nsubj
2	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	3 refuse	advmod
3	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 attend	mark
5	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refuse	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	Doctors					otherwise property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not attend	to-infinitive	Doctors not said here						vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Treatment is chosen from what they are told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux:pass
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 chosen	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present · passive		Treatment					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from what=Source
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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