Exam question 2 · Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the summoning of parents to school in respect of incomplete homework?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, summon, respect · To what, where: summoning, respect, parents, incomplete homework

This is exam question 2 of lesson 363 «Mean messages, fake ages and sharing photos» 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	1 Which	nmod
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 summoning	det
10	summoning	summoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 parents	case
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 summoning	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 school	case
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 respect	case
16	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 homework	case
18	incomplete	incomplete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 homework	amod
19	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 respect	nmod
20	?	?	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	the summoning of parents	respect of incomplete homework	to school; accurately property	tree rules
3	summon		parents			nom summoning «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	respect		incomplete homework			nom respect «cognition 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 a penalty designed principally to humiliate the pupil before the class

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	4 penalty	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 penalty	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 penalty	det
4	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 penalty	acl
6	principally	principally	ADV	_	5 designed	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 humiliate	mark
8	humiliate	humiliate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 designed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pupil	det
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 humiliate	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 class	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 class	det
13	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 humiliate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a penalty			tree rules
2	design	participle		a penalty not said here		principally property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	humiliate	to-infinitive		the pupil	before the class		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pupil=Experiencer

Option 2

It relieves the pupil of responsibility

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 relieves	nsubj
2	relieves	relieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pupil	det
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relieves	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 responsibility	case
6	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pupil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	relieve	present	It	the pupil of responsibility					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pupil=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a means of resolving the difficulty jointly and not of shaming the pupil

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	4 means	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 resolving	mark
6	resolving	resolve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 means	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 difficulty	det
8	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolving	obj
9	jointly	jointly	ADV	_	6 resolving	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shaming	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 shaming	advmod
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 shaming	mark
13	shaming	shame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 resolving	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pupil	det
15	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shaming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		mean property	tree rules
2	resolve	gerund		the difficulty	jointly property	tree rules
3	not shame	gerund		the pupil		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pupil=Experiencer

Option 4

It is undertaken for every pupil without cause

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 undertaken	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 undertaken	aux:pass
3	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 pupil	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 pupil	det
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 undertaken	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 cause	case
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 undertaken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	present · passive		It				for every pupil; without cause	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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