Exam question 4 · Family game night

Determine which conduct most accurately exemplifies that of a gracious loser.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, conduct, exemplify

This is exam question 4 of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 conduct	nsubj
3	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 accurately	advmod
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 exemplifies	advmod
6	exemplifies	exemplify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conduct	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 loser	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 loser	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 loser	det
10	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 loser	amod
11	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exemplifies	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	conduct	present			tree rules
3	exemplify	present		accurately property	tree rules

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

Asserting that the victory was conceded deliberately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asserting	assert	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 conceded	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 victory	det
4	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conceded	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conceded	aux:pass
6	conceded	concede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Asserting	advcl
7	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	6 conceded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assert	gerund							vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	concede	past · passive		the victory				deliberately property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

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

Congratulating the winner upon the victory obtained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Congratulating	congratulate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winner	det
3	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Congratulating	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 victory	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 victory	det
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Congratulating	obl
7	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 victory	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	congratulate	gerund		the winner				upon the victory	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme
2	obtain	participle		the victory not said here					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

Declining to participate in any further game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Declining	decline	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 participate	mark
3	participate	participate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Declining	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 game	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 game	det
6	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 game	amod
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 participate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	gerund							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not participate	to-infinitive						in any further game	vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in game=Theme

Option 4

Disputing the validity of the result obtained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disputing	dispute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 validity	det
3	validity	validity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Disputing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 result	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 result	det
6	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 validity	nmod
7	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Disputing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dispute	gerund		the validity of the result					tree rules
2	obtain	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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