Exam question 2 · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away

Identify the most appropriate response of a child to a cousin who incites him to commit theft.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cousin · What happens: identify, incite, commit · To what, where: appropriate response, child, theft

This is exam question 2 of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far 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	5 response	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 response	amod
5	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 response	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cousin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cousin	det
11	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 incites	nsubj
13	incites	incite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cousin	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 incites	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 commit	mark
16	commit	commit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 incites	xcomp
17	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 commit	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response of a child to a cousin	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	incite	present	a cousin	child	tree rules
3	commit	to-infinitive	a cousin not said here	theft	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theft=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

To comply in order to preserve family harmony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 comply	mark
2	comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 order	case
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comply	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 preserve	mark
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comply	advcl
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harmony	compound
8	harmony	harmony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preserve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comply	to-infinitive				order			tree rules
2	preserve	to-infinitive		family harmony					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harmony=Beneficiary

Option 2

To comply on a single occasion only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 comply	mark
2	comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 occasion	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 occasion	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 occasion	amod
6	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comply	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	2 comply	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comply	to-infinitive				a single occasion			tree rules

Option 3

To commit the theft and subsequently confess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 commit	mark
2	commit	commit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 theft	det
4	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commit	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 confess	cc
6	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	7 confess	advmod
7	confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 commit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commit	to-infinitive		the theft					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theft=Theme
2	confess	present						subsequently property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To refuse, notwithstanding the family relationship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 refuse	mark
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 notwithstanding	punct
4	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 refuse	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 relationship	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relationship	compound
7	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notwithstanding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	to-infinitive							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	notwithstand	gerund		the family relationship					tree rules

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