Exam question 3 · Manners and kindness

Identify the principal message conveyed by interrupting a speaker.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey, interrupt · To what, where: principal message, speaker

This is exam question 3 of lesson 51 «Manners and kindness» 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 message	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 message	amod
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 message	acl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 interrupting	mark
7	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 conveyed	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 speaker	det
9	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interrupting	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal message	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	convey	participle		the principal message not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	interrupt	gerund		a speaker	tree rules

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 right answer

That what the speaker says is of no importance to the listener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 importance	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 says	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 That	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 importance	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 importance	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 importance	det
9	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 listener	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 listener	det
12	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 importance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the speaker						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is	present	That					of no importance; to the listener	tree rules

Option 2

That the listener agrees entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 listener	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 listener	det
3	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agrees	nsubj
4	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	4 agrees	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	that listener					entirely property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That the listener is especially polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 listener	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 listener	det
3	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 polite	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	cop
5	especially	especially	ADV	_	6 polite	advmod
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that listener					especially, polite property	tree rules

Option 4

That the speaker should speak more loudly and more slowly so as to be understood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 speaker	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 speaker	det
3	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 loudly	advmod
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 speak	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slowly	cc
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 slowly	advmod
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 loudly	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 understood	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 understood	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	15 understood	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 understood	aux:pass
15	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 speak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	should	that speaker					loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	understand	to-infinitive · passive	that speaker not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»

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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