Exam question 4 · Debates and rows on chat shows
Whereas a participant in a debate responds to a question concerning school meals exclusively by discussing employment, identify the term for such conduct.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: question · What happens: respond, concern, discuss, identify · To what, where: school meals, employment, term
This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «Debates and rows on chat shows» of the politics 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 | _ | 3 participant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 participant | det |
| 3 | participant | participant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 responds | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 debate | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 debate | det |
| 6 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 participant | nmod |
| 7 | responds | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 question | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 question | det |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 responds | obl |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 question | acl |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meals | compound |
| 13 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 concerning | obj |
| 14 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 11 concerning | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 discussing | mark |
| 16 | discussing | discuss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 concerning | advcl |
| 17 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 discussing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 identify | punct |
| 19 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 responds | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 term | det |
| 21 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 identify | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 conduct | case |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 conduct | amod |
| 24 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 term | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 responds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | present | whereas a participant in a debate; to a question | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to question=Theme | |||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | a question not said here | school meals | exclusively property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus meal=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | discuss speech: other | gerund | a question not said here | employment | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Topic | ||||
| 4 | identify | infinitive | the term | for such conduct | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=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
Canvassing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canvassing | canvass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | canvass | gerund | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Impartiality
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impartiality | impartiality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Rebuttal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rebuttal | rebuttal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Pivoting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pivoting | pivot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pivot | gerund | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/e4/