Exam question 2 · Cruel pranks and where the line is

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the removal of a chair as a person is about to sit.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, person · What happens: select, establish, concern, be, sit, remove · To what, where: response, removal, chair

This is exam question 2 of lesson 439 «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 removal	det
11	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 chair	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chair	det
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 removal	nmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 about	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 about	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 about	cop
19	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 concerning	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 about	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	the removal of a chair		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus removal=Experiencer
4	is	present	a person		about property	tree rules
5	sit	to-infinitive	a person not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	remove			a chair		nom removal «act transitive»: of=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

It is harmless, as demonstrated in prank videos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harmless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	cop
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 demonstrated	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 demonstrated	mark
6	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harmless	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 videos	case
8	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 videos	compound
9	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 demonstrated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					harmless property	tree rules
2	demonstrate	participle				prank videos			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is permissible among friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 permissible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 permissible	cop
3	permissible	permissible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	5 friends	case
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 permissible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					among friends; permissible property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may occasion a fall and injury to the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 occasion	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 occasion	aux
3	occasion	occasion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fall	det
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occasion	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 injury	cc
7	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occasion	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion	may	It	a fall and injury				to the head	tree rules

Option 4

It improves the balance of the subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 improves	nsubj
2	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 balance	det
4	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improves	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 subject	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 subject	det
7	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	It	the balance of the subject					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent balance=Patient
2	balance		the subject						nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/e2/