Exam question 4 · Fighting games at a friend's house

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a parent who learns of a prohibited activity from a third party.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, parent · What happens: select, establish, concern, learn, prohibit · To what, where: response, parent, third party

This is exam question 4 of lesson 401 «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 parent	det
11	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 learns	nsubj
13	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 parent	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 activity	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 activity	det
16	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 activity	amod
17	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learns	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 party	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 party	det
20	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 party	amod
21	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learns	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a parent			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus parent=Experiencer
4	learn	present	a parent		a third party	of a prohibited activity	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent of activity=Theme from party=Source
5	prohibit	participle					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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

The parent is invariably indifferent to the matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 indifferent	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 indifferent	cop
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 indifferent	advmod
5	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 matter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 matter	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 indifferent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the parent					to the matter; indifferent, invariably property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The concealment diminishes the parent's concern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 concealment	det
2	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diminishes	nsubj
3	diminishes	diminish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parent	det
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concern	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 parent	case
7	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diminishes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diminish	present	the concealment	the parent's concern					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer concern=Patient
2	concern		the parent						nom concern «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The parent is obliged to remain silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obliged	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remain	mark
6	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remain	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		the parent					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	remain	to-infinitive						silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The parent is frequently more distressed by the concealment than by the activity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distressed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 distressed	aux
4	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	6 distressed	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 distressed	advmod
6	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 concealment	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 concealment	det
9	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distressed	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 activity	case
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 activity	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 activity	det
13	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distress	present · passive	the concealment	the parent				than the activity; frequently property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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