Exam question 4 · Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment

In respect of jealousy, which statement most accurately characterises the established facts?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: characteris, establish, respect · To what, where: established facts, respect, jealousy

This is exam question 4 of lesson 92 «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 characterises	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 jealousy	case
4	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 statement	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 statement	det
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealousy	conj
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 accurately	advmod
9	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	10 characterises	advmod
10	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 facts	det
12	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 facts	amod
13	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 characterises	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	the established facts	respect of jealousy and which statement	accurately property	tree rules
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	respect		jealousy and which statement			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

Jealousy is an abnormal feeling which is experienced only by thoroughly unkind persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
4	abnormal	abnormal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	amod
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 experienced	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 experienced	aux:pass
8	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feeling	acl:relcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	8 experienced	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 persons	case
11	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	12 unkind	advmod
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 persons	amod
13	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 experienced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Jealousy	a abnormal feeling					tree rules
2	experience	present · passive	unkind persons	a abnormal feeling					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Jealousy is a normal feeling, but behaving unkindly because of it is not fair

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	amod
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fair	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 fair	cc
8	behaving	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 fair	csubj
9	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	_	8 behaving	advmod
10	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 it	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 because	fixed
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 behaving	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fair	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 fair	advmod
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Jealousy	a normal feeling		tree rules
2	behave	gerund			because Jealousy; unkindly property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	behaving		fair property	tree rules

Option 3

Jealousy justifies the spoiling of another's possessions in order to restore fairness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 justifies	nsubj
2	justifies	justify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spoiling	det
4	spoiling	spoiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 justifies	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 possessions	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 possessions	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 another	case
8	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoiling	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 justifies	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 restore	mark
12	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 justifies	advcl
13	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 restore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	justify speech: other	present	Jealousy	the spoiling of another's possessions	order	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoiling=Topic
2	restore	to-infinitive	Jealousy not said here	fairness		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fairness=Theme
3	spoil		another's possessions			nom spoiling «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Jealousy is best addressed by comparing oneself with others as often as possible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 addressed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 addressed	aux:pass
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 addressed	advmod
4	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 comparing	mark
6	comparing	compare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 addressed	advcl
7	oneself	oneself	PRON	Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 comparing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 comparing	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	6 comparing	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 possible	mark
13	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 often	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	address	present · passive		Jealousy				well property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	compare	gerund		oneself				with others; often property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent oneself=Patient with other=Co-Patient

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