Exam question 1 · Forgiving

Identify the principal meaning of forgiveness as defined by the teacher.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, define, mean · To what, where: principal meaning, forgiveness

This is exam question 1 of lesson 454 «Forgiving» 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 meaning	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meaning	amod
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 forgiveness	case
6	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meaning	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 defined	mark
8	defined	define	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 defined	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal meaning of forgiveness		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	define	participle	you not said here		by the teacher	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean			forgiveness		nom meaning «communication 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

The declaration that the wrong was in fact acceptable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 declaration	det
2	declaration	declaration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fact	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 wrong	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wrong	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 declaration	acl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fact	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fact	case
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fact	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the declaration			fact			tree rules

Option 2

The restoration of complete trust forthwith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 restoration	det
2	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trust	case
4	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trust	amod
5	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 restoration	nmod
6	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	2 restoration	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The obligation to forget the wrong entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 obligation	det
2	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 forget	mark
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 obligation	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wrong	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	obj
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	4 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	to-infinitive		the wrong				entirely property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The decision to cease punishing a person for a wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 decision	det
2	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cease	mark
4	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decision	acl
5	punishing	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cease	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 punishing	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 wrong	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wrong	det
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 punishing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	punish	gerund		a person				for a wrong	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent person=Patient for wrong=Theme

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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