Exam question 4 · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning messages demanding onward transmission upon pain of a device being compromised.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, concerning messages · What happens: select, establish, demand, compromise, pain · To what, where: response, transmission, device

This is exam question 4 of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 messages	amod
10	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	demanding	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 messages	acl
12	onward	onward	ADV	_	13 transmission	advmod
13	transmission	transmission	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demanding	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 pain	case
15	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demanding	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 device	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 device	det
18	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pain	nmod
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 compromised	aux:pass
20	compromised	compromise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 device	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	demand speech: request	gerund	concerning messages not said here	transmission	upon pain of a device	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme transmission=Precondition
4	compromise	gerund · passive		a device not said here		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»
5	pain			a device		nom pain «state 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

Transmission to ten persons protects the device

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Transmission	transmission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protects	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 persons	case
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Transmission	nmod
5	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 device	det
7	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	Transmission to ten persons	the device					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent device=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The transmission or otherwise of such a message has no bearing upon the security of a device

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 transmission	det
2	transmission	transmission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 otherwise	cc
4	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	2 transmission	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 message	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 message	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 message	det
8	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transmission	nmod
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bearing	det
11	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 security	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 security	det
14	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bearing	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 device	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 device	det
17	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 security	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the transmission of such message	no bearing				upon the security of a device	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Patient
2	transmit			such message					nom transmission «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only devices belonging to groups can be compromised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 devices	advmod
2	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 compromised	nsubj:pass
3	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 devices	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 groups	case
5	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 belonging	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 compromised	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 compromised	aux:pass
8	compromised	compromise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	devices not said here					to groups	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	compromise	can · passive		devices					tree rules

Option 4

Failure to transmit invariably results in compromise of the device and of every device in the same group

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transmit	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 transmit	mark
3	transmit	transmit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	3 transmit	advmod
5	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 transmit	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 compromise	case
7	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transmit	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 device	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 device	det
10	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 compromise	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 device	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 device	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 device	det
14	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 device	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 group	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 group	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 group	amod
18	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transmit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	to-infinitive	Failure	results		compromise of the device and every device		in the same group; invariably property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Theme
2	compromise		the device and every device						nom compromise «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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