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Exam question 4 · Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van

It is given that a child is informed prior to an injection that it will cause no pain, and that it subsequently does. Determine the consequence most commonly reported.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, you · What happens: give, be, cause, do, determine, report · To what, where: It, pain, consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 443 «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 is informed prior to an injection that it will cause no pain, and that it subsequently does.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 informed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 informed	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 informed	cop
8	informed	informed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	advcl
9	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 injection	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 prior	fixed
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 injection	det
12	injection	injection	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 informed	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 cause	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cause	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 cause	aux
16	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 injection	acl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 pain	det
18	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cause	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 does	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 does	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 does	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 does	nsubj
23	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	24 does	advmod
24	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	a child					prior a injection; informed property	tree rules
3	cause	future	child	no pain					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient
4	do	present	child					subsequently property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 consequence most commonly reported.

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	3 consequence	det
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 commonly	advmod
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	6 reported	advmod
6	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consequence	acl
7	.	.	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 consequence					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic
2	report	participle		the consequence not said here				commonly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The child experiences no pain whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 experiences	nsubj
3	experiences	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pain	det
5	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 experiences	obj
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 experiences	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	experience	present	the child	no pain				whatsoever property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus

Option 2

The child's trust in adults is increased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trust	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increased	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trust	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 increased	aux:pass
8	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present · passive		the child's trust in adults					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	trust		the child					in adults	nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl

Option 3

The child requests a second injection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 requests	nsubj
3	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 injection	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 injection	amod
6	injection	injection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 requests	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	present	the child	a second injection					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent injection=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The child feels deceived and is more distressed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deceived	deceived	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feels	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 distressed	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 distressed	aux:pass
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 distressed	advmod
8	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	the child					deceived property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	distress	present · passive	the child not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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