Exam question 3 · Protests, petitions and young activists

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning damage to property during a protest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 38 «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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	10 damage	amod
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 damage	amod
10	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 property	case
12	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 damage	nmod
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 protest	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 protest	det
15	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			during a protest		tree rules
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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 · ✓ the right answer

It is unlawful irrespective of the merit of the cause advanced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 irrespective	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 irrespective	cop
3	unlawful	unlawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 irrespective	amod
4	irrespective	irrespective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 merit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merit	det
7	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irrespective	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cause	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cause	det
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 merit	nmod
11	advanced	advanced	PUNCT	_	4 irrespective	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of the merit of the cause; irrespective property	tree rules

Option 2

It is lawful where it is reported in the news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lawful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lawful	cop
3	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 reported	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reported	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reported	aux:pass
7	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lawful	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 news	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 news	det
10	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reported	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					lawful property	tree rules
2	report	present · passive		it		the news			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

It is lawful where the cause advanced is meritorious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lawful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lawful	cop
3	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 meritorious	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 advanced	det
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advanced	compound
7	advanced	advanced	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meritorious	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 meritorious	cop
9	meritorious	meritorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lawful	list

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					lawful property	tree rules
2	is	present	the cause advanced					meritorious property	tree rules

Option 4

It is lawful where the majority of protesters are peaceful and the damage is modest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lawful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lawful	cop
3	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 peaceful	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 majority	det
6	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 peaceful	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 protesters	case
8	protesters	protester	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 majority	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 peaceful	cop
10	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lawful	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 modest	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 damage	det
13	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 modest	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 modest	cop
15	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lawful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	lawful property	tree rules
2	is	present	the majority of protesters	peaceful property	tree rules
3	is	present	the damage	modest property	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.

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