Exam question 4 · The row over a game

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a remark presented as a jest which causes distress.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts, jest · What happens: select, establish, concern, present, cause · To what, where: response, remark, distress

This is exam question 4 of lesson 475 «The row over a game» 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	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
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	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 remark	det
11	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 remark	acl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 jest	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 jest	det
15	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 presented	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 causes	nsubj
17	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 jest	acl:relcl
18	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 causes	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a remark		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus remark=Experiencer
4	present	participle		a remark not said here	as a jest	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cause	present	a jest	distress		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition distress=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 · ✓ the right answer

It is reasonable to inform the speaker that it caused hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reasonable	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reasonable	cop
3	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 inform	mark
5	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reasonable	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 speaker	det
7	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inform	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 hurt	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	nsubj:pass
10	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux:pass
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 inform	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			reasonable property	tree rules
2	inform speech: other	to-infinitive		the speaker		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent speaker=Recipient
3	hurt	past · passive	speaker			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Such remarks ought to be repeated more loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remarks	amod
2	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 repeated	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 repeated	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 repeated	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 repeated	aux:pass
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 loudly	advmod
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 repeated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	ought · passive		Such remarks				loudly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

A jest can never occasion distress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 jest	det
2	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 occasion	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 occasion	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 occasion	advmod
5	occasion	occasion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 occasion	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not occasion	can	a jest	distress					tree rules

Option 4

The distressed party is necessarily at fault for lacking humour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 party	det
2	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 party	amod
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fault	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fault	cop
5	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	7 fault	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 fault	case
7	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 lacking	mark
9	lacking	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fault	acl
10	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lacking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	distress	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the distressed party		fault	necessarily property	tree rules
3	lack	gerund	fault not said here	humour			tree rules

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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