Exam question 3 · Getting help is not telling tales

Identify the most appropriate course of action for a pupil who discovers that a classmate's telephone has been taken by another child.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pupil, child · What happens: identify, discover, take · To what, where: appropriate course, telephone

This is exam question 3 of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 course	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 course	amod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 action	case
7	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 course	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 pupil	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pupil	det
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 discovers	nsubj
12	discovers	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pupil	acl:relcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 taken	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 classmate	det
15	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telephone	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 classmate	case
17	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 taken	aux:pass
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 discovers	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 child	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate course of action	for a pupil	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme
2	discover	present	a pupil			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	take	present · perfect · passive	another child	a classmate's telephone		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To summon the teacher on duty without delay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 summon	mark
2	summon	summon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summon	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 duty	case
6	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summon	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 delay	case
8	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summon	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	to-infinitive			the teacher	duty		without delay	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 2

To refrain from any action whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 refrain	mark
2	refrain	refrain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 action	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 action	det
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refrain	obl
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 refrain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refrain	to-infinitive				any action		whatsoever property	vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from action=Eventuality

Option 3

To take an article belonging to the other child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 article	det
4	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 article	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		a article					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Theme
2	belong	gerund	a article not said here					to the other child	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

To retrieve the telephone by force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 retrieve	mark
2	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 telephone	det
4	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retrieve	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 force	case
6	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retrieve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retrieve	to-infinitive		the telephone				by force	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=Theme

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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