Exam question 3 · Strangers and tricky people

Identify the recommended response where a person attempts to seize a child.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, recommend, attempt, seize · To what, where: recommended response, child

This is exam question 3 of lesson 58 «Strangers and tricky people» 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 response	det
3	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 attempts	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attempts	nsubj
8	attempts	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 response	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 seize	mark
10	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 attempts	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seize	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the recommended response	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	recommend	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	attempt	present	a person		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive	a person not said here	a child	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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

To hide behind the person's car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 car	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 person	case
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive				the person's car			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind car=Location

Option 2

To go quietly and wait for a chance later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 chance	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chance	det
8	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive						quietly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	infinitive						for a chance; late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To yell, pull away, run towards people and tell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 yell	mark
2	yell	yell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pull	punct
4	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 yell	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 yell	conj
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 yell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	to-infinitive		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull away	infinitive	away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	infinitive	towards people	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards people=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To remain silent so as not to anger the person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remain	mark
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remain	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 remain	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 anger	case
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 anger	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 anger	mark
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 so	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	to-infinitive						silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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