Exam question 3 · Trusting again

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a person who admits his failures?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person · What happens: follow, characteris, admit, fail · To what, where: person, failures

This is exam question 3 of lesson 455 «Trusting again» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 admits	nsubj
12	admits	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 person	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 failures	nmod:poss
14	failures	failure	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 admits	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a person	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	admit speech: other	present	a person	person's failures		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent failure=Theme
4	fail		person			nom failure «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

He is unworthy of any trust whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unworthy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 unworthy	cop
3	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 trust	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 trust	det
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unworthy	obl
7	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	6 trust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of any trust; unworthy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He is more readily trusted than one who claims to have none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trusted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trusted	aux
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 readily	advmod
4	readily	readily	ADV	_	5 trusted	advmod
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 trusted	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 claims	nsubj
9	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 claims	xcomp
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trust	present · passive	He	than one; readily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	claim speech: other	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	to-infinitive	none		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

Option 3

He is trusted only by strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trusted	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trusted	aux:pass
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 trusted	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 strangers	case
6	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trusted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	present · passive	strangers	He					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

He is less readily trusted than one who conceals them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trusted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trusted	aux
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 readily	advmod
4	readily	readily	ADV	_	5 trusted	advmod
5	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 trusted	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 conceals	nsubj
9	conceals	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 conceals	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	present · passive		He				than one; readily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	conceal	present		them = they					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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/455-trusting-again/e3/