Exam question 4 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

Whereas a person encountered online requests photographs and personal information, determine the appropriate response.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person, you · What happens: encounter, request, determine · To what, where: photographs, appropriate response

This is exam question 4 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	6 requests	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 requests	nsubj
4	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 person	acl
5	online	online	ADV	_	4 encountered	advmod
6	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 determine	advcl
7	photographs	photograph	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 requests	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 information	cc
9	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 information	amod
10	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 photographs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 requests	punct
12	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 response	det
14	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 response	amod
15	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 determine	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	encounter	past	a person not said here		online property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	request	present	a person	photographs and personal information		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent photograph=Recipient
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic

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

Decline only if the request has been made on more than one occasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 request	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 request	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 request	det
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Decline	nmod
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 occasion	case
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	12 one	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 more	fixed
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 occasion	nummod
13	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive		Decline the request		one occasion			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Comply, provided the photographs show no face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 provided	punct
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Comply	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 photographs	det
5	photographs	photograph	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 provided	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 face	det
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	comply	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	provide	past	you not said here		vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
3	show	present	the photographs	no face	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Decline, since such persons may not be who they claim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 claim	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 be	mark
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 persons	amod
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 be	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 be	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 claim	cop
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 claim	nsubj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 claim	nsubj
11	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Decline	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	Decline					claim property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Comply, provided the person states his age as twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 provided	punct
3	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Comply	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	nsubj
6	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 provided	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 age	nmod:poss
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 states	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 twelve	case
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 states	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	comply	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	provide	past	you not said here			vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
3	state speech: other	present	the person	person's age	as twelve	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent age=Topic

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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