Exam question 4 · Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and te…

State the effect of sharing silly jokes with younger children.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: State effect · What happens: share · To what, where: silly jokes

This is exam question 4 of lesson 333 «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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	3 effect	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 sharing	mark
5	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 effect	acl
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jokes	amod
7	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sharing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 children	case
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jokes	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 effect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund	the State effect not said here	silly jokes				with younger children	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 confuses them and slows their learning of 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	2 confuses	nsubj
2	confuses	confuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confuses	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slows	cc
5	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 confuses	conj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 learning	nmod:poss
7	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slows	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 words	case
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	present	It	them = they					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	slow	present		their learning of words					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent learning=Patient

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

It builds friendship and helps them learn language

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 builds	nsubj
2	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 builds	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 helps	cc
5	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 builds	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helps	obj
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 helps	xcomp
8	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	build	present	It	friendship	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material friendship=Product
2	help	present		them = they	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	learn	infinitive	them = they not said here	language	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic

Option 3

It has no effect

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no effect					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 4

It teaches them to be rude

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 teaches	nsubj
2	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teaches	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 rude	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teaches	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	It		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive						rude property	tree rules

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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