Exam question 1 · Blocking, muting and walking away

Identify the principal function of the «block» facility within an online application.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal function

This is exam question 1 of lesson 481 «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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 function	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 function	amod
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 facility	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facility	det
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 block	punct
8	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 facility	compound
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 block	punct
10	facility	facility	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
11	within	within	ADP	_	14 application	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 application	det
13	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 application	amod
14	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal function of the block facility				within a online application	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=Theme

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

To inform the police of an offence committed online

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 police	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inform	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 offence	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 offence	det
7	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 police	nmod
8	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 police	acl
9	online	online	ADV	_	2 inform	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	to-infinitive		the police of a offence				online property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient
2	commit	participle		the police of a offence not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To prevent a given person from contacting the user

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 contacting	mark
7	contacting	contact	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 user	det
9	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contacting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive	a given person	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer person=Theme
2	give	participle		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	contact	gerund	the user	tree rules

Option 3

To publish the other person's messages to all users

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 publish	mark
2	publish	publish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 messages	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 person	case
7	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 publish	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 users	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 users	det
10	users	user	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 publish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	publish	to-infinitive		the other person's messages				to all users	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Result

Option 4

To delete the user's own account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 delete	mark
2	delete	delete	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 user	det
4	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 account	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 user	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 account	amod
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delete	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delete	to-infinitive		the user's own account					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
2	account		the user						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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