Exam question 2 · Covering for a friend

Select the response appropriate where a friend has caused bodily injury to another child.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, friend · What happens: select, cause · To what, where: response, bodily injury

This is exam question 2 of lesson 436 «Covering for a friend» 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	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 caused	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 caused	aux
9	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 response	acl
10	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 injury	amod
11	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 child	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	cause	present · perfect	a friend	bodily injury				to another child	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient

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 right answer

Covering is never appropriate, as the injured party requires adult knowledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appropriate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 appropriate	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 requires	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 requires	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 party	det
8	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 party	amod
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 requires	nsubj
10	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 appropriate	conj
11	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knowledge	amod
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 requires	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Covering		appropriate property	tree rules
2	injure	participle				tree rules
3	require	present	the injured party	adult knowledge		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knowledge=Precondition

Option 2

Covering is appropriate where the act was a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appropriate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appropriate	cop
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 game	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 act	det
6	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 game	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 game	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appropriate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Covering					appropriate property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the act	a game					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Covering is appropriate if the injury is slight and the friend has apologised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appropriate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appropriate	cop
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 slight	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 injury	det
6	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slight	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slight	cop
8	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 appropriate	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 apologised	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 apologised	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 apologised	aux
13	apologised	apologise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 slight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Covering	appropriate property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the injury	slight property	tree rules
3	apologise speech: apologize	present · perfect	the friend		tree rules

Option 4

Covering is appropriate if the friend so requests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appropriate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appropriate	cop
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 friend	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appropriate	advcl
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 requests	case
8	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appropriate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Covering					so requests; appropriate property	tree rules

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