Exam question 4 · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★
Whereas a statement can be neither confirmed nor refuted at present, determine the most honest verdict.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: confirm, refute, determine · To what, where: statement, present, honest verdict
This is exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» 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 | _ | 7 confirmed | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 statement | det |
| 3 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confirmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 confirmed | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 6 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 7 confirmed | advmod |
| 7 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 determine | advcl |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 refuted | cc |
| 9 | refuted | refute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 confirmed | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 present | case |
| 11 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refuted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 confirmed | punct |
| 13 | determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 verdict | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 honest | advmod |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 verdict | amod |
| 17 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 determine | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | can · passive | a statement | neither property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | refute | participle | present | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the honest verdict | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verdict=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 · ✓ the right answer
Not sure yet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 sure | advmod |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
False
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
True
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
True, provided many have shared it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 provided | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 True | punct |
| 3 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shared | aux |
| 6 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 provided | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | share | present · perfect · passive | many | 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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