Exam question 3 · The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the representations of age made by persons online.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, make, represent · To what, where: response, representations, age

This is exam question 3 of lesson 480 «The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 representations	det
11	representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 age	case
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 representations	nmod
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 representations	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 persons	case
16	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obl
17	online	online	ADV	_	16 persons	advmod
18	.	.	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	the representations of age		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus representation=Experiencer
4	make	participle		the representations of age not said here	by persons	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	represent			age		nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

Such persons may misrepresent their age and identity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 persons	amod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 misrepresent	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 misrepresent	aux
4	misrepresent	misrepresent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 age	nmod:poss
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 misrepresent	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 identity	cc
8	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 age	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misrepresent	may	Such persons	persons's age and identity					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Persons online are prevented from lying by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prevented	nsubj:pass
2	online	online	ADV	_	1 Persons	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prevented	aux:pass
4	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 lying	mark
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 prevented	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 law	case
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	present · passive		Persons					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lie	gerund						by law	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by law=Location

Option 3

Such representations are invariably accurate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 representations	amod
2	representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accurate	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accurate	cop
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 accurate	advmod
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Such representations					accurate, invariably property	tree rules

Option 4

Representations of age are verified by every game before play begins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 verified	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 age	case
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Representations	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 verified	aux:pass
5	verified	verify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verified	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 begins	mark
10	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begins	nsubj
11	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 verified	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	verify	present · passive	every game	Representations of age	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic
2	begin	present	play		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	represent			age	nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=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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