Exam question 4 · Lied to by someone you love

Determine which of the following is most commonly reported by children informed of a pet's death with honesty and affection.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, children, pet · What happens: determine, follow, report, inform, die · To what, where: children

This is exam question 4 of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 reported	obj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 reported	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reported	det
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 reported	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reported	aux:pass
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 commonly	advmod
8	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	9 reported	advmod
9	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Determine	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 children	case
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reported	obl
12	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 children	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 death	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pet	det
15	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 death	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 pet	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 informed	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 honesty	case
19	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 death	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 affection	cc
21	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 honesty	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	report	present · passive	children		commonly property	tree rules
4	inform speech: other	participle		children not said here	of a pet's death with honesty and affection	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent of death=Topic
5	die		a pet		with honesty and affection	nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 · ← Mova's choice

That they request a replacement immediately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 request	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 request	nsubj
3	request	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 replacement	det
5	replacement	replacement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 request	obj
6	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 request	advmod

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

Option 2

That they suffer more than through deception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 suffer	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suffer	nsubj
3	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 suffer	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 deception	case
7	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present	That	more		deception			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That they are able to bear the sad truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 able	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 able	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bear	mark
6	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 truth	amod
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					able property	tree rules
2	bear	to-infinitive	That not said here	the sad truth					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Patient

Option 4

That they do not notice the death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 notice	nsubj:outer
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 notice	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 death	det
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	present · do-support	That	the death					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus

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