Exam question 2 · The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightm…

Identify the principal consequence of a deliberate effort to suppress an unwanted thought.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, suppress · To what, where: principal consequence, unwanted thought

This is exam question 2 of lesson 26 «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» 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 consequence	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 consequence	amod
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 effort	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 effort	det
7	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 effort	amod
8	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 suppress	mark
10	suppress	suppress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 effort	acl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thought	det
12	unwanted	unwanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	amod
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suppress	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal consequence of a deliberate effort					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
2	suppress	to-infinitive	you not said here	a unwanted thought					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=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

The thought is permanently erased from memory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 erased	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 erased	aux:pass
4	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	5 erased	advmod
5	erased	erase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 memory	case
7	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 erased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erase	present · passive		the thought		memory		permanently property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from memory=Source

Option 2

The thought is transferred to another person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 transferred	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 transferred	aux:pass
4	transferred	transfer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 transferred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	present · passive		the thought	another person				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to person=Recipient

Option 3

The thinker is rendered unable to sleep thereafter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thinker	det
2	thinker	thinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rendered	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rendered	aux:pass
4	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rendered	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp
8	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	7 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	present · passive		the thinker				unable property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive						thereafter property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The thought tends to recur with greater frequency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tends	nsubj
3	tends	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 recur	mark
5	recur	recur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tends	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 frequency	case
7	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 frequency	amod
8	frequency	frequency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recur	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	present	the thought						tree rules
2	recur	to-infinitive	the thought not said here					with greater frequency	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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