Exam question 1 · What fights cost at school

Identify the principal purpose of a restorative meeting convened between pupils following a fight.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pupils, restorative meeting · What happens: identify, convene, follow, purpose · To what, where: principal purpose, restorative meeting, fight

This is exam question 1 of lesson 375 «What fights cost at school» 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	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 meeting	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meeting	det
7	restorative	restorative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meeting	amod
8	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
9	convened	convene	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meeting	acl
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 pupils	case
11	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 convened	obl:agent
12	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 pupils	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fight	det
14	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 following	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose of a restorative meeting	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	convene	participle		a restorative meeting not said here	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	gerund	pupils not said here	a fight	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme
4	purpose		a restorative meeting		nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

To permit each party to state their own conduct and to agree how the harm may be repaired

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 permit	mark
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 party	det
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 permit	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 state	mark
6	state	state	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 permit	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 conduct	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 conduct	amod
9	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 agree	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 agree	mark
12	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 permit	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 repaired	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 harm	det
15	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 repaired	nsubj:pass
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 repaired	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 repaired	aux:pass
18	repaired	repair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 agree	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	permit	to-infinitive		each party	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer party=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	state speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive		their own conduct	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
3	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	repair	may · passive		the harm	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	conduct		their = they		nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

To inform the police of the incident

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 police	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inform	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 incident	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 incident	det
7	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 police	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	to-infinitive		the police of the incident					vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient

Option 3

To determine which of the two parties merits the more severe punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 determine	mark
2	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 merits	advcl
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 parties	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 parties	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parties	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 parties	nummod
7	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 determine	ccomp
8	merits	merit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 punishment	det
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 severe	advmod
11	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 punishment	amod
12	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 merits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	to-infinitive							vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	merit	present		the severe punishment					tree rules

Option 4

To permit the parties to resume the fight under supervision

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 permit	mark
2	permit	permit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parties	det
4	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 permit	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 resume	mark
6	resume	resume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 permit	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fight	det
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resume	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 supervision	case
10	supervision	supervision	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resume	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	to-infinitive		the parties					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer party=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	resume not said to happen	to-infinitive		the fight		supervision			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

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