Exam question 3 · The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret

Identify the principal reason for which most parents respond more gravely to concealment than to the accident concealed.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, most parents · What happens: identify, respond, conceal · To what, where: principal reason

This is exam question 3 of lesson 15 «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 respond	obl
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 parents	amod
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 respond	nsubj
9	respond	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 gravely	advmod
11	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 respond	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 concealment	case
13	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gravely	obl
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 concealed	mark
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 accident	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 accident	det
17	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 concealed	obl
18	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gravely	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	respond speech: other	present	most parents		for the principal reason; gravely property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	conceal	past	most parents not said here		to the accident	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Concealment damages trust, whereas an accident is not deliberate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 damages	nsubj
2	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 damages	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deliberate	punct
5	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	10 deliberate	mark
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 accident	det
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deliberate	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 deliberate	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 deliberate	advmod
10	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 damages	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present	Concealment	trust					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Patient
2	not is	present	a accident					deliberate property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Parents are customarily indifferent to accidents of every kind whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 indifferent	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 indifferent	cop
3	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	4 indifferent	advmod
4	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 accidents	case
6	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 indifferent	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accidents	nmod
10	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	4 indifferent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Parents					to accidents of every kind; customarily, indifferent, whatsoever property	tree rules

Option 3

Accidents are invariably more costly than concealment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 costly	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 costly	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 costly	advmod
5	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 concealment	case
7	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 costly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Accidents					than concealment; costly property	tree rules

Option 4

Concealment is the only matter subject to legal penalty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 subject	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 subject	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 subject	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 subject	amod
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 subject	compound
6	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 penalty	case
8	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 penalty	amod
9	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 subject	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Concealment	the only matter subject				to legal penalty	tree rules

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