Exam question 1 · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the appropriate response to a dare?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: appropriate response

This is exam question 1 of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 response	det
10	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 response	amod
11	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dare	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dare	det
14	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 response	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the appropriate response				of the following statements; to a dare; accurately property	tree rules

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

It must be performed if repeated twice

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	4 performed	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 performed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 performed	aux:pass
4	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 repeated	mark
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 performed	conj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 repeated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	must · passive		It					vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	repeat a condition, not said to happen	participle						twice property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It must be accepted, in order that one retain the respect of one's friends

The tree, 15 words

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	4 accepted	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 accepted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 accepted	aux:pass
4	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 order	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accepted	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 retain	mark
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 retain	nsubj
10	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accepted	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 respect	det
12	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 retain	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 friends	case
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 one	case
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	accept	must · passive		It	order	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	retain	present	one	the respect of one's friends		tree rules
3	respect			one's friends		nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may be refused, since health matters more than proving anything

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	4 refused	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 refused	aux:pass
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	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 refused	conj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 matters	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 proving	mark
11	proving	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 matters	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 proving	obj

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

Option 4

It may be refused only by younger children

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	4 refused	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 refused	aux:pass
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 refused	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 refused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	may · passive	younger children	It					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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