Exam question 2 · Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments

Identify the course of action most likely to bring about the cessation of a nickname employed by teammates.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, bring, employ, cease · To what, where: course, nickname

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection 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 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 likely	advmod
7	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 Identify	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 cessation	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cessation	det
12	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 nickname	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nickname	det
15	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cessation	nmod
16	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nickname	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 teammates	case
18	teammates	teammate	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 employed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the course of action	likely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme
2	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here		about the cessation of a nickname	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	employ	participle		a nickname not said here	by teammates	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cease			a nickname		nom cessation «event 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 · ← Mova's choice

Permanent withdrawal from all team activities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 withdrawal	amod
2	withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 activities	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 activities	det
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 activities	compound
6	activities	activity	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 withdrawal	nmod

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

Option 2

The adoption of an even less dignified nickname

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 adoption	det
2	adoption	adoption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 nickname	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nickname	det
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 less	advmod
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 dignified	advmod
7	dignified	dignified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nickname	amod
8	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adoption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adopt			a dignified nickname					nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Good-humoured indifference in place of angry reaction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 indifference	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Good	punct
3	humoured	humour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 indifference	amod
4	indifference	indifference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 indifference	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 reaction	case
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reaction	amod
9	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	humour	participle							tree rules

Option 4

Vehement objection upon every occasion of its use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vehement	Vehement	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 objection	compound
2	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 occasion	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 occasion	det
5	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 objection	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 use	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 use	nmod:poss
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 occasion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion			occasion's use					nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient
2	use		occasion						nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent

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