Exam question 1 · Homework, practice and the team counting on you

Identify the principal reason for which the omission of one member's portion of a group assignment is detrimental to the group.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, omission · What happens: identify, be, omit · To what, where: principal reason, portion

This is exam question 1 of lesson 351 «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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	19 detrimental	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 omission	det
8	omission	omission	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 detrimental	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 portion	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 member	nummod
11	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 portion	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 member	case
13	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 omission	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 assignment	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 assignment	det
16	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assignment	compound
17	assignment	assignment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 portion	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 detrimental	cop
19	detrimental	detrimental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 group	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 group	det
22	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 detrimental	obl
23	.	.	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	is	present	the omission of one member's portion of a group assignment		for the principal reason; to the group; detrimental property	tree rules
3	omit			one member's portion of a group assignment		nom omission «act 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 right answer

The group cannot complete the work and all receive a lower mark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 group	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 complete	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 complete	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 complete	advmod
5	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 complete	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 receive	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 receive	advmod
10	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 complete	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mark	det
12	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 mark	amod
13	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 receive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not complete	can	the group	the work					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	receive	present	the group not said here	a lower mark					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme

Option 2

Only the absent member is penalised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 member	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 member	det
3	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 member	amod
4	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 penalised	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 penalised	aux:pass
6	penalised	penalis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	penalis	present · passive		the absent member					tree rules

Option 3

Group assignments are optional

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Group	group	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 assignments	amod
2	assignments	assignment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 optional	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 optional	cop
4	optional	optional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Group assignments					optional property	tree rules

Option 4

Teachers do not mark group work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mark	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mark	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mark	advmod
4	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	compound
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mark	present · do-support	Teachers	group work					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent work=Destination

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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