Exam question 1 · Leaving someone out

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the exclusion of a child from a role in play on account of skin colour.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, exclude, account · To what, where: response, exclusion, role, child, skin colour

This is exam question 1 of lesson 347 «Leaving someone out» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 exclusion	det
13	exclusion	exclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exclusion	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 role	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 role	det
19	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 play	case
21	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 role	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 account	case
23	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 play	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 colour	case
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 colour	compound
26	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 account	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the exclusion of a child	a role in play on account of skin colour		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus exclusion=Experiencer
5	exclude			a child			nom exclusion «state transitive»: of=patient
6	account			skin colour			nom account «communication 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

It is wrong only where a teacher is present

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 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 present	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 present	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 present	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 present	cop
9	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	is	present	a teacher					present property	tree rules

Option 2

It is of no consequence to the child excluded

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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 consequence	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 consequence	det
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
9	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 consequence	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of no consequence; to the child	tree rules
2	exclude	participle		no consequence not said here					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 3

It is permissible within imaginative play, since the roles assigned are not real ones

The tree, 14 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	3 permissible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 permissible	cop
3	permissible	permissible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 play	case
5	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 play	amod
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 permissible	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ones	punct
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 ones	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roles	det
10	roles	role	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ones	nsubj
11	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 roles	acl
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ones	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ones	advmod
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 permissible	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		within imaginative play; permissible property	tree rules
2	assign	participle		the roles not said here		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	the roles	real ones		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is wrong and hurtful, skin colour determining nothing of what a person may be

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	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hurtful	cc
5	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 colour	punct
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 colour	compound
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	conj
9	determining	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 colour	acl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 determining	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 nothing	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		wrong property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	determine	gerund	skin colour not said here	nothing		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	be	may				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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