Exam question 4 · The best friend who moves away

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning friendships that diminish after one party changes school.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, concerning friendships, response · What happens: select, establish, concern, diminish, change · To what, where: school

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changes	nsubj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 friendships	amod
10	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 diminish	nsubj
12	diminish	diminish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friendships	acl:relcl
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 party	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 party	nummod
15	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 diminish	obl
16	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	ccomp
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changes	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	diminish	present	concerning friendships		after one party	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	change	present	the response	school		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=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

They fade solely because one party has lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fade	nsubj
2	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	2 fade	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 lied	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 party	nummod
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lied	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lied	aux
8	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fade	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	They					solely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lie	present · perfect · passive		one party					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They cannot fade if both parties are sincere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fade	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fade	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fade	advmod
4	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 sincere	mark
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 parties	det
7	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sincere	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sincere	cop
9	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fade	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fade	can	They						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	both parties					sincere property	tree rules

Option 3

They fade only when a quarrel has first occurred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fade	nsubj
2	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	9 occurred	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 occurred	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quarrel	det
6	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occurred	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 occurred	aux
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 occurred	advmod
9	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fade	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	They						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	occur	present · perfect · passive		a quarrel				first property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They may fade without fault on either side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fade	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fade	aux
3	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 fault	case
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fade	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	may	They			either side		without fault	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

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