Exam question 4 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a friend who disparages one's spouse in company.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, friend · What happens: select, establish, concern, disparage · To what, where: response, friend, spouse, company

This is exam question 4 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 disparages	nsubj
13	disparages	disparage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 friend	acl:relcl
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spouse	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 one	case
16	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disparages	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 company	case
18	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disparages	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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 friend			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
4	disparage	present	a friend	one's spouse	company		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=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

The remark ought to be applauded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 remark	det
2	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 applauded	nsubj:pass
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 applauded	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 applauded	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 applauded	aux:pass
6	applauded	applaud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	applaud	ought · passive		the remark					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is proper to require an apology notwithstanding the friendship

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 proper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proper	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 require	mark
5	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 proper	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apology	det
7	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 require	obj
8	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 apology	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 friendship	det
10	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notwithstanding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		proper property	tree rules
2	require	to-infinitive		a apology		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apology=Precondition
3	notwithstand	gerund	a apology not said here	the friendship		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The spouse ought to apologise to the friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spouse	det
2	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apologise	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 apologise	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 apologise	mark
5	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apologise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	ought	the spouse					to the friend	tree rules

Option 4

Friendship requires that such remarks be tolerated without objection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requires	nsubj
2	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 tolerated	mark
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remarks	amod
5	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tolerated	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tolerated	aux:pass
7	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 requires	ccomp
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 objection	case
9	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tolerated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	Friendship						vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	tolerate	infinitive · passive		such remarks				without objection	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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