Exam question 2 · Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it goin…

Identify the principal purpose of stating who a person is to oneself when introducing them.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, principal purpose · What happens: identify, state, be, introduce · To what, where: principal purpose, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 323 «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 stating	mark
6	stating	state	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 purpose	acl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 oneself	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 oneself	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 oneself	cop
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 oneself	case
12	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stating	ccomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 introducing	advmod
14	introducing	introduce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 oneself	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 introducing	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	state speech: other	gerund	the principal purpose not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			to oneself	tree rules
4	introduce	gerund		them = they		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 is required in formal letters

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 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 letters	case
5	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 letters	amod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		It		formal letters			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

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

It tells others how they are connected to you

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 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tells	obj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 connected	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 connected	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 connected	aux:pass
7	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tells	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 connected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	It	others					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
2	connect	present · passive		others = other	you				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to you=Co-Patient

Option 3

It reveals the person's age

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 reveals	nsubj
2	reveals	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 age	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 person	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reveals	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reveal	present	It	the person's age					vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic

Option 4

It replaces giving their name

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 replaces	nsubj
2	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 replaces	xcomp
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	replace	present	It		tree rules
2	give	gerund		their name	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	name		their = they		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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