Exam question 4 · Breaking things and hiding the pieces

Determine which measures are most conducive to the gradual alteration of a habit of misconduct.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, measures · What happens: determine, be, alter · To what, where: habit

This is exam question 4 of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 measures	det
3	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conducive	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 conducive	cop
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 conducive	advmod
6	conducive	conducive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Determine	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 alteration	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 alteration	det
9	gradual	gradual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 alteration	amod
10	alteration	alteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conducive	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 habit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 habit	det
13	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 alteration	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 misconduct	case
15	misconduct	misconduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 habit	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	which measures		to the gradual alteration of a habit of misconduct; conducive property	tree rules
3	alter			a habit of misconduct		nom alteration «event transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

The concealment of all future misconduct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 concealment	det
2	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 misconduct	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 misconduct	det
5	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 misconduct	amod
6	misconduct	misconduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 concealment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal			all future misconduct					nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Remaining entirely idle at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 idle	advmod
3	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remaining	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 idle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	gerund		idle					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme idle=Attribute

Option 3

A single promise never to err again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 promise	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promise	amod
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 err	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 err	mark
6	err	err	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	acl
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 err	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not err	to-infinitive					again		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The avoidance of companions who incite it and the provision of occupation for idle time

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 avoidance	det
2	avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 companions	case
4	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 avoidance	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 incite	nsubj
6	incite	incite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 companions	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 incite	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 provision	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 provision	det
10	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoidance	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 occupation	case
12	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 provision	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoidance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	incite	present	companions	it		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
2	avoid			companions	for idle time	nom avoidance «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl
3	provide		occupation			nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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