Exam question 4 · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays

It is given that a child related a fictitious ghost story as true at a sleepover, whereupon another child requested to be collected at three o'clock in the morning. Determine the conduct most appropriate.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: child, you · What happens: give, relate, request, collect, determine · To what, where: It, fictitious ghost story, three o'clock, conduct

This is exam question 4 of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a child related a fictitious ghost story as true at a sleepover, whereupon another child requested to be collected at three o'clock in the morning.

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.

Sentence 2: Determine the conduct most appropriate.

The options

Option 1

To refrain from apologising

Option 2

To relate stories of a more frightening character on later occasions

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To state in advance that the story is invented

Option 4

To insist thereafter that the story was true

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