Exam question 2 · Siblings as best mates and as rivals

Identify the arrangement that is most likely to render a contest between an older and a younger sibling fair.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, arrangement · What happens: identify, be, render · To what, where: arrangement, contest

This is exam question 2 of lesson 507 «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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	3 arrangement	det
3	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 likely	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 likely	cop
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arrangement	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 render	mark
9	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 likely	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 contest	det
11	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 render	obj
12	between	between	ADP	_	14 older	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 older	det
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 contest	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fair	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sibling	det
17	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 sibling	amod
18	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fair	nsubj
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 older	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the arrangement		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent arrangement=Theme
2	is	present	the arrangement		likely property	tree rules
3	render	to-infinitive	the arrangement not said here	a contest		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=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 · ← Mova's choice

The complete abandonment of every competitive game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 abandonment	det
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 abandonment	amod
3	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 game	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 game	det
6	competitive	competitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 game	amod
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 abandonment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	abandon			every competitive game					nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The older sibling's secretly deliberate failure to score

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sibling	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sibling	amod
3	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 failure	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 failure	cop
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	7 failure	advmod
6	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 failure	amod
7	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 score	mark
9	score	score	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 failure	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the older sibling	deliberate failure				secretly property	tree rules
2	score	to-infinitive							vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The award of victory to the younger sibling in advance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 award	det
2	award	award	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 victory	case
4	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 award	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 sibling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sibling	det
7	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sibling	amod
8	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 award	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 advance	case
10	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sibling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	award			victory				to the younger sibling in advance	nom award «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A genuine handicap, such as the weaker foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 handicap	det
2	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handicap	amod
3	handicap	handicap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 foot	punct
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 foot	case
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 such	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foot	det
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 foot	amod
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handicap	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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