Exam question 1 · Growing apart

Identify the principal cause of the gradual separation of two friends who have quarrelled with neither.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, two friends · What happens: identify, quarrell, cause, separate · To what, where: principal cause, gradual separation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 separation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 separation	det
7	gradual	gradual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 separation	amod
8	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 friends	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 friends	nummod
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 separation	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 quarrelled	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 quarrelled	aux
14	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 friends	acl:relcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 neither	case
16	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	14 quarrelled	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of the gradual separation of two friends		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	quarrell	present · perfect	two friends		with neither	tree rules
3	cause			the gradual separation of two friends		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
4	separate		two friends			nom separation «state intransitive»: of=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

The secret malice of one party towards the other party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 malice	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 malice	amod
3	malice	malice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 party	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 party	nummod
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 malice	nmod
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	10 party	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 party	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 party	amod
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 malice	nmod

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

Option 2

The intervention of their teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 intervention	det
2	intervention	intervention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 teachers	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teachers	nmod:poss
5	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 intervention	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intervene		their teachers						nom intervention «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The dishonesty of both parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dishonesty	det
2	dishonesty	dishonesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 parties	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 parties	det
5	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dishonesty	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The development of differing interests as they mature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 development	det
2	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 differing	mark
4	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 development	acl
5	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 differing	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 mature	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mature	nsubj
8	mature	mature	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 differing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	differ	gerund	the development not said here	interests					tree rules
2	mature	present	interests = interest						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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