Exam question 2 · Friends who get it

Identify the principal advantage of rendering assistance quietly and without an audience.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, principal advantage · What happens: identify, render · To what, where: principal advantage, assistance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 525 «Friends who get it» 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 advantage	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 advantage	amod
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 rendering	mark
6	rendering	render	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 advantage	acl
7	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rendering	obj
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 assistance	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 audience	cc
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 audience	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 audience	det
12	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assistance	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal advantage					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
2	render	gerund	the principal advantage not said here	assistance and a audience					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=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 right answer

It protects the dignity of the person assisted

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 protects	nsubj
2	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dignity	det
4	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protects	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dignity	nmod
8	assisted	assist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 person	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	It	the dignity of the person					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dignity=Beneficiary
2	assist	participle		the person not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It ensures that the helper receives due credit

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 ensures	nsubj
2	ensures	ensure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 receives	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 helper	det
5	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receives	nsubj
6	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ensures	advcl
7	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 credit	amod
8	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ensure	present	It						vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
2	receive	present	the helper	due credit					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Theme

Option 3

It avoids any expense whatsoever to the helper

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 avoids	nsubj
2	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 expense	det
4	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoids	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 avoids	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 helper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 helper	det
8	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoids	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	It	any expense				to the helper; whatsoever property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent expense=Location

Option 4

It is mandated by the rules of every school

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	3 mandated	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mandated	aux:pass
3	mandated	mandate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 rules	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mandated	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 school	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 school	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mandate	present · passive	the rules of every school	It					tree rules
2	rule		every school						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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