Exam question 1 · Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends

Identify the term which denotes the division of a population into two opposing camps which seldom communicate with one another.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: identify, denote, oppose, communicate · To what, where: term, division, two opposing camps

This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 denotes	nsubj
5	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 term	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 division	det
7	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denotes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 population	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 population	det
10	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 division	nmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 camps	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 camps	nummod
13	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 camps	amod
14	camps	camp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 denotes	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 communicate	obj
16	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	17 communicate	advmod
17	communicate	communicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 camps	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 communicate	obl
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	fixed
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	present	the term	the division of a population	two opposing camps		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot division=Topic
3	oppose	gerund					vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	communicate	present		two opposing camps		with one; seldom property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 · ← Mova's choice

Common ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ground	amod
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Consensus-building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consensus	consensus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Consensus	punct
3	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Reconciliation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Polarisation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polarisation	polarisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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