Exam question 2 · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

Identify the principal reason for which boasting about one's possessions is discouraged.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, one · What happens: identify, boast, be · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 2 of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	7 boasting	obl
7	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 reason	acl
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 discouraged	mark
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 discouraged	nsubj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 discouraged	cop
13	discouraged	discouraged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boasting	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	boast speech: other	gerund			for the principal reason	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	one		discouraged 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 causes one's possessions to be envied and subsequently stolen

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 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 possessions	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 one	case
5	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 causes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 envied	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 envied	aux:pass
8	envied	envy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 causes	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stolen	cc
10	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	11 stolen	advmod
11	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 envied	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present	It	one's possessions		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition possession=Patient
2	envy	to-infinitive · passive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
3	steal	participle			subsequently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	possess		one			nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It is prohibited by school rules

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 prohibited	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prohibited	aux:pass
3	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 rules	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	compound
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prohibited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive	school rules	It					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 3

It uses up one's pocket money

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 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 uses	compound:prt
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	compound
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use up	present	It	one's pocket money					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

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

It makes others feel small and pushes friends away

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pushes	cc
7	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pushes	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	others		tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	others not said here		small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	push away	present		friends	away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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