Exam question 1 · When you want what others have

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between another person's achievement and one's own?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: follow, characteris, achieve · To what, where: relationship

This is exam question 1 of lesson 353 «When you want what others have» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 relationship	det
10	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	between	between	ADP	_	15 achievement	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 achievement	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 person	case
15	achievement	achievement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relationship	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 own	cc
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 one	case
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 characterises	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the relationship	of the following statements; between another person's achievement; accurately property	tree rules
3	achieve		another person			nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Envy increases one's own achievement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increases	nsubj
2	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 achievement	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 one	case
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 achievement	amod
6	achievement	achievement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increases	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	Envy	one's own achievement					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer achievement=Patient
2	achieve		one						nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

One person's success necessarily reduces another's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 person	nummod
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 success	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 person	case
4	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reduces	nsubj
5	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	6 reduces	advmod
6	reduces	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 reduces	obj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 another	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present	One person's success	another				necessarily property	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer another=Patient

Option 3

Achievements are rationed within a family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Achievements	achievement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rationed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rationed	aux:pass
3	rationed	ration	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rationed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ration	present · passive		Achievements				within a family	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Another person's achievement does not diminish one's own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 achievement	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 person	case
4	achievement	achievement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diminish	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 diminish	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 diminish	advmod
7	diminish	diminish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 diminish	obj
9	's	's	PART	_	8 one	case
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 diminish	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not diminish	present · do-support	another person's achievement	one				own property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer one=Patient
2	achieve		another person						nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent

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