Exam question 3 · Sam is scared: fear is normal

Given that a pupil has been summoned by another pupil to «meet at the gate» after school, identify the most appropriate course of action.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: pupil · What happens: give, summon, meet, identify · To what, where: pupil, gate, appropriate course

This is exam question 3 of lesson 366 «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 summoned	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pupil	det
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 summoned	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 summoned	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 summoned	aux:pass
7	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Given	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 pupil	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 pupil	det
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 summoned	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	13 meet	mark
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 meet	punct
13	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 summoned	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meet	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 gate	punct
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 school	case
19	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meet	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 identify	punct
21	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 meet	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 course	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 appropriate	advmod
24	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 course	amod
25	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 identify	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 action	case
27	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 course	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	summon	present · perfect · passive	another pupil	a pupil			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	meet in a quote	to-infinitive	another pupil not said here		the gate	after school	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	identify	infinitive	another pupil not said here	the appropriate course of action			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme

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

To feign illness on every subsequent school day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feign	mark
2	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feign	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
6	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feign	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	to-infinitive		illness			day		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To inform a teacher or parent on the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 inform	mark
2	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inform	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 parent	cc
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inform	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	to-infinitive			a teacher or parent		day		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 3

To attend the meeting in order to resolve matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 attend	mark
2	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meeting	det
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attend	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 resolve	mark
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 in	fixed
7	to	to	PART	_	8 resolve	mark
8	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 attend	advcl
9	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 resolve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	to-infinitive		the meeting					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meeting=Goal
2	resolve	to-infinitive		matters					tree rules

Option 4

To recruit additional pupils to retaliate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 recruit	mark
2	recruit	recruit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pupils	amod
4	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recruit	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 retaliate	mark
6	retaliate	retaliate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 recruit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recruit	to-infinitive		additional pupils					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme
2	retaliate	to-infinitive							vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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