Exam question 4 · The friend in the game you never met, and the fake friend

Identify the principal distinction between blocking and reporting an online account.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal distinction · What happens: identify, block, report · To what, where: principal distinction, online account

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 distinction	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distinction	amod
4	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 blocking	mark
6	blocking	block	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 distinction	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reporting	cc
8	reporting	report	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 blocking	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 account	det
10	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 account	amod
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reporting	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal distinction	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent distinction=Theme
2	block	gerund	the principal distinction not said here		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	report	gerund	the principal distinction not said here	a online account	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=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

Reporting prevents contact, whereas blocking has no effect whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reporting	reporting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	nsubj
2	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
5	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
6	blocking	block	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prevents	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 effect	det
9	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	7 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prevent	present	Reporting	contact		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer contact=Theme
2	block	gerund				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	have	present		no effect	whatsoever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Blocking informs the police, whereas reporting deletes one's own account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blocking	block	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 informs	nsubj
2	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 police	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 informs	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deletes	punct
6	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	8 deletes	mark
7	reporting	report	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 deletes	nsubj
8	deletes	delete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 informs	conj
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deletes	obj
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 account	amod
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deletes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	block	gerund		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	inform speech: other	present	the police	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient
3	report	gerund		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	delete	present	one	tree rules

Option 3

There exists no distinction between the two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 exists	expl
2	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 distinction	det
4	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exists	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 two	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 two	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 distinction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present		no distinction		there		between the two	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Blocking prevents contact, whereas reporting informs the platform

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blocking	block	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 prevents	nsubj
2	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevents	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 informs	punct
5	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	7 informs	mark
6	reporting	reporting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 informs	nsubj
7	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prevents	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 platform	det
9	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 informs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	block	gerund			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	prevent	present		contact	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer contact=Theme
3	inform speech: other	present	reporting	the platform	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent platform=Recipient

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