Exam question 2 · Friends, teams and fair play

Identify the conduct of a good team in respect of victory and defeat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, conduct, respect · To what, where: conduct, respect, good team, victory

This is exam question 2 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 team	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 team	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 team	amod
7	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conduct	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 victory	case
11	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 defeat	cc
13	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 victory	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conduct of a good team	respect of victory and defeat	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	conduct			a good team		nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient
3	respect			victory and defeat		nom respect «cognition 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 · ✓ the right answer

It shares the credit for a victory and does not blame one member for a defeat

The tree, 16 words

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	2 shares	nsubj
2	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 credit	det
4	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shares	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 victory	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 victory	det
7	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shares	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blame	cc
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 blame	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 blame	advmod
11	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shares	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 member	nummod
13	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blame	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 defeat	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 defeat	det
16	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	It	the credit				for a victory	tree rules
2	not blame	present · do-support		one member				for a defeat	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent member=Theme for defeat=Attribute

Option 2

It blames the weakest member for every defeat, so that he may improve before the next match

The tree, 17 words

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	2 blames	nsubj
2	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 member	det
4	weakest	weak	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 member	amod
5	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blames	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 defeat	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 defeat	det
8	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 member	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 improve	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 improve	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 improve	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 improve	aux
14	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blames	parataxis
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 match	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 match	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 match	amod
18	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 improve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present	It	the weakest member				for every defeat	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent member=Theme for defeat=Attribute
2	improve	may	he				before the next match		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It ignores both victory and defeat entirely

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	2 ignores	nsubj
2	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 victory	cc:preconj
4	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ignores	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 defeat	cc
6	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 victory	conj
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 ignores	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	It	victory and defeat				entirely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme

Option 4

It credits only the captain for victories

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	2 credits	nsubj
2	credits	credit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 captain	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 credits	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 victories	case
7	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 captain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	credit	present	It	the captain				for victories	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent captain=Theme for victory=Recipient

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