Exam question 1 · The fake friend online

Identify the principal reason for which a person encountered exclusively online may profess to share all of a child's interests.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person, principal reason, child · What happens: identify, encounter, profess, share, interest · To what, where: all

This is exam question 1 of lesson 447 «The fake friend online» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 profess	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 encountered	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 encountered	nsubj
9	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	9 encountered	advmod
11	online	online	ADV	_	9 encountered	advmod
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 profess	aux
13	profess	profess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 share	mark
15	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 profess	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 share	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 interests	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 interests	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 child	case
21	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 all	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	encounter	past	a person		for the principal reason; exclusively, online property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	profess	may	the principal reason			vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	share	to-infinitive	the principal reason not said here	all		tree rules
5	interest		a child			nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

To demonstrate genuine friendship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 demonstrate	mark
2	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friendship	amod
4	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demonstrate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	to-infinitive		genuine friendship					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot friendship=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To gain the child's trust for an improper purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 gain	mark
2	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trust	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 child	case
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gain	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 purpose	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 purpose	det
9	improper	improper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 purpose	compound
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	to-infinitive		the child's trust				for a improper purpose	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent trust=Theme for purpose=Source
2	trust		the child						nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

To recommend suitable games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 recommend	mark
2	recommend	recommend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 games	amod
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recommend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recommend	to-infinitive		suitable games					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To comply with the rules of the platform

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 comply	mark
2	comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rules	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rules	det
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comply	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 platform	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 platform	det
8	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comply	to-infinitive						with the rules of the platform	tree rules
2	rule		the platform						nom rule «cognition 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.

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