Exam question 2 · Snooping on phones, diaries and letters

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a relapse into a habit previously renounced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, renounce · To what, where: relapse, habit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 357 «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 relapse	det
10	relapse	relapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 habit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 habit	det
13	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
14	previously	previously	ADV	_	15 renounced	advmod
15	renounced	renounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 habit	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a relapse	a habit	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	renounce	participle	a habit not said here		previously property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

It cancels all prior efforts at improvement

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	2 cancels	nsubj
2	cancels	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 efforts	det
4	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 efforts	amod
5	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cancels	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 improvement	case
7	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cancels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	present	It	all prior efforts		improvement			tree rules

Option 2

It demonstrates that change is impossible

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	2 demonstrates	nsubj
2	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 impossible	mark
4	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impossible	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 demonstrates	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	change					impossible property	tree rules

Option 3

It requires no further amends once forgiveness has been given

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	2 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 further	advmod
4	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 amends	advmod
5	amends	amend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 requires	ccomp
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 given	mark
7	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 given	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 given	aux:pass
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 amends	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	require	present	It			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	amend	present			far property	tree rules
3	give	present · perfect · passive		forgiveness		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is common and requires renewed amends and a practical plan

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 common	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	cop
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 requires	cc
5	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	conj
6	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 amends	amod
7	amends	amend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 requires	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plan	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plan	det
10	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plan	amod
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 common	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		common property	tree rules
2	require	present		renewed amends		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme amend=Precondition
3	renew	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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