Exam question 2 · Arguing politely and never calling names

Identify the practice whereby a participant restates the opposing position in its most cogent form prior to responding.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, participant, cogent · What happens: identify, restate, oppose, form, respond · To what, where: practice, opposing position

This is exam question 2 of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 practice	det
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	7 restates	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 participant	det
6	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restates	nsubj
7	restates	restate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 position	det
9	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 position	amod
10	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restates	obj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 form	mark
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 form	nmod:poss
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 cogent	advmod
14	cogent	cogent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 form	nsubj
15	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 restates	advcl
16	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	18 responding	mark
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 prior	fixed
18	responding	respond	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 form	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the practice		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme
2	restate	present	a participant	the opposing position	whereby property	tree rules
3	oppose	gerund				vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	form	present	cogent			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	respond speech: other	gerund	cogent not said here			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Steelmanning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steelmanning	steelmanning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Seeking a compromise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 compromise	det
3	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	gerund		a compromise					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compromise=Theme

Option 3

Strawmanning the opponent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strawmanning	strawmann	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opponent	det
3	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Strawmanning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strawmann	gerund		the opponent					tree rules

Option 4

Stereotyping the opponent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stereotyping	stereotype	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opponent	det
3	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stereotyping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stereotype	gerund		the opponent					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent opponent=Theme

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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