Exam question 2 · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

Identify the principal conduct of the residents of the street following the burglary of the corner shop.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, street · What happens: identify, follow, conduct, burgle · To what, where: principal conduct, burglary, residents, corner shop

This is exam question 2 of lesson 483 «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 conduct	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 residents	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 residents	det
7	residents	resident	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 conduct	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 residents	nmod
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 street	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 burglary	det
13	burglary	burglary	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 following	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 shop	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shop	det
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shop	compound
17	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burglary	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal conduct of the residents of the street	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	follow	gerund	the street not said here	the burglary of the corner shop	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burglary=Theme
3	conduct			the residents of the street	nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient
4	burgle			the corner shop	nom burglary «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

They held the shopkeeper responsible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shopkeeper	det
4	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	They	the shopkeeper				responsible property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shopkeeper=Theme

Option 2

They remained indifferent to the event

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remained	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 event	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 event	det
6	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	They					to the event; indifferent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They withdrew their custom from the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 withdrew	nsubj
2	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 custom	nmod:poss
4	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 withdrew	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 withdrew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	withdraw	past	They	their custom		the shop			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent custom=Theme from shop=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They assembled voluntarily to clean and repair the premises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assembled	nsubj
2	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	_	2 assembled	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 clean	mark
5	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 assembled	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 repair	cc
7	repair	repair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clean	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 premises	det
9	premises	premise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 repair	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assemble	past	They		voluntarily property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	clean	to-infinitive	They not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	repair	infinitive	They not said here	the premises		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent premise=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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