Exam question 1 · Thinking cleverly about people

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises fairness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: fairness

This is exam question 1 of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		fairness				of the following statements; accurately property	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

Each person receiving what he needs, which is not always the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	receiving	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 person	acl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 needs	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 receiving	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 thing	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 thing	advmod
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 thing	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund	each person and the same thing not said here			tree rules
2	need	present	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	not is a	present	each person and the same thing	the same thing	always property	tree rules

Option 2

The oldest person receiving the most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	receiving	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 person	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 most	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 receiving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund	the oldest person not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The loudest person deciding the outcome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	deciding	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 person	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 outcome	det
6	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deciding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	gerund	the loudest person not said here	the outcome					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic

Option 4

Each person invariably receiving an identical share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receiving	nsubj
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 receiving	advmod
4	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 share	det
6	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 share	amod
7	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receiving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund	each person	a identical share				invariably property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme

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