Exam question 1 · Nice alone, mean in a group

Identify the conduct which characterises a person commonly described as a «frenemy».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, conduct · What happens: identify, characteris, describe · To what, where: conduct, person

This is exam question 1 of lesson 468 «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 characterises	nsubj
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conduct	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	obj
8	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	9 described	advmod
9	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 person	acl
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 frenemy	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 frenemy	det
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 frenemy	punct
13	frenemy	frenemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 frenemy	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conduct		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	characteris	present	the conduct	a person		tree rules
3	describe	participle		a person not said here	as a frenemy; commonly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as frenemy=Attribute

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

Consistent hostility in every setting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hostility	amod
2	hostility	hostility	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 setting	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 setting	det
5	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hostility	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Friendly behaviour in private combined with unkindness before others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 behaviour	amod
2	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 combined	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 private	case
4	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 behaviour	nmod
5	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 unkindness	case
7	unkindness	unkindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 combined	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 combined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	combine	participle	Friendly behaviour in private				before others	with unkindness	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with unkindness=Co-Patient

Option 3

Consistent kindness in every setting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kindness	amod
2	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 setting	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 setting	det
5	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kindness	nmod

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

Option 4

Friendship confined to pupils of other schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Friendship	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 pupils	case
4	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confined	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 schools	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 schools	amod
7	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pupils	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	participle		Friendship not said here	pupils of other schools				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to pupil=Destination

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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