Exam question 4 · Taking too much

State the remedy most consistent with making amends after appropriating the largest portion of a shared cake.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, make, appropriate, share · To what, where: remedy, amends, largest portion

This is exam question 4 of lesson 352 «Taking too much» 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 remedy	det
3	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remedy	amod
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 consistent	advcl
8	amends	amend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 making	obj
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 appropriating	mark
10	appropriating	appropriate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 making	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 portion	det
12	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 portion	amod
13	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appropriating	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 cake	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cake	det
16	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cake	amod
17	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 portion	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the remedy	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remedy=Topic
2	make	gerund	you not said here	amends	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product
3	appropriate	gerund	you not said here	the largest portion of a shared cake	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme
4	share	participle			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 · ← Mova's choice

The consumption of the remaining portions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 consumption	det
2	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 portions	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 portions	det
5	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 portions	amod
6	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consumption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			the remaining portions					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A refusal to discuss the matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 refusal	det
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 discuss	mark
4	discuss	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refusal	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discuss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discuss speech: other	to-infinitive		the matter					vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An apology and permitting the other party to choose first thereafter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apology	det
2	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 permitting	cc
4	permitting	permit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 apology	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 party	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 party	amod
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 permitting	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 choose	mark
9	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 party	acl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 choose	advmod
11	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	9 choose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	gerund		the other party					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme
2	choose	to-infinitive		the other party not said here				first, thereafter property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A demand for a larger cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 demand	det
2	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 cake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cake	det
5	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 cake	amod
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demand	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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