Exam question 2 · The friend who only calls when they need something

Given that a friend requests that a pupil deceive the friend's parent as to her whereabouts, ascertain the most appropriate response.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, pupil · What happens: give, request, deceive, ascertain · To what, where: parent, appropriate response

This is exam question 2 of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 requests	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 requests	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requests	nsubj
5	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 deceive	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pupil	det
8	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deceive	nsubj
9	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 requests	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parent	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 friend	case
13	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deceive	obj
14	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 whereabouts	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 whereabouts	nmod:poss
17	whereabouts	whereabouts	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 deceive	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ascertain	punct
19	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 deceive	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 response	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 appropriate	advmod
22	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 response	amod
23	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ascertain	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 requests	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	participle	a friend not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	request	present	a friend			vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	deceive	infinitive	a pupil	the friend's parent	as friend's whereabouts	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient
4	ascertain	present	a pupil not said here	the appropriate response		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic

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 right answer

To decline to deceive the parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decline	mark
2	decline	decline	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 deceive	mark
4	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decline	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deceive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	to-infinitive							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not deceive	to-infinitive		the parent					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient

Option 2

To inform the parent of a different falsehood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 inform	mark
2	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parent	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inform	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 falsehood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 falsehood	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 falsehood	amod
8	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 parent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	to-infinitive			the parent of a different falsehood				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 3

To accompany the friend in order to supervise her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 accompany	mark
2	accompany	accompany	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accompany	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 supervise	mark
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 in	fixed
7	to	to	PART	_	8 supervise	mark
8	supervise	supervise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 accompany	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 supervise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	to-infinitive		the friend					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	supervise	to-infinitive		friend					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

To comply with the request on this occasion only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 comply	mark
2	comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 request	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 request	det
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comply	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 occasion	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 occasion	det
8	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comply	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	2 comply	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comply	to-infinitive				this occasion		with the request	tree rules

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