Exam question 1 · The best friend who moves away

Identify the measure most likely to sustain a friendship following the relocation of one friend to another continent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, sustain, follow, relocate · To what, where: measure, friendship, one friend

This is exam question 1 of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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	3 measure	det
3	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 Identify	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sustain	mark
7	sustain	sustain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friendship	det
9	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sustain	obj
10	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 relocation	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 relocation	det
12	relocation	relocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sustain	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 friend	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 friend	nummod
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 relocation	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 continent	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 continent	det
18	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sustain	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the measure	likely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
2	sustain	to-infinitive	you not said here	a friendship	follow the relocation of one friend; to another continent	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent friendship=Theme
3	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	relocate			one friend		nom relocation «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

Communication exclusively by surface mail once a decade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	1 Communication	advmod
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 mail	case
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mail	compound
5	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Communication	nmod
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 decade	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 decade	det
8	decade	decade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Communication	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	communicate		surface mail						nom communication «communication intransitive»: by=agent

Option 2

The abandonment of all new friendships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 abandonment	det
2	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 friendships	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 friendships	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friendships	amod
6	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 abandonment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon			all new friendships					nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An agreed and regular arrangement for communication

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arrangement	det
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 arrangement	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 regular	cc
4	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 agreed	conj
5	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 communication	case
7	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrangement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

An undertaking never to change one's activities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 undertaking	det
2	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 change	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 change	mark
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 activities	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 one	case
8	activities	activity	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	to-infinitive	a undertaking	one's activities					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Patient

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