Exam question 4 · Older siblings and YouTube gameplay

Determine the most prudent course of action where an unknown participant in an online game requests a child's age and place of residence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, unknown participant · What happens: determine, request · To what, where: prudent course, age

This is exam question 4 of lesson 423 «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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	Determine	determine	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 prudent	advmod
4	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 course	amod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 action	case
7	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 course	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 requests	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 participant	det
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 participant	amod
11	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 requests	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 game	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 game	det
14	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 game	amod
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 participant	nmod
16	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 action	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 age	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 child	case
20	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 requests	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 place	cc
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 age	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 residence	case
24	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the prudent course of action					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
2	request	present	a unknown participant in a online game	a child's age and place of residence					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

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 disconnect and inform a responsible adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 disconnect	mark
2	disconnect	disconnect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 inform	cc
4	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 disconnect	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
6	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 adult	amod
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inform	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disconnect	to-infinitive							vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	inform speech: other	infinitive			a responsible adult				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

To supply the information with courtesy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	supply	to-infinitive		the information				with courtesy	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent information=Recipient with courtesy=Theme

Option 3

To request the participant's details in return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 request	mark
2	request	request	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 participant	det
4	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 details	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 participant	case
6	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 request	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 return	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 request	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	to-infinitive		the participant's details		return			vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent detail=Recipient
2	detail		the participant						nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

To supply false information in jest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 supply	mark
2	supply	supply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 information	amod
4	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supply	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 jest	case
6	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supply	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	supply	to-infinitive		false information		jest			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Recipient

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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