Exam question 2 · Accidents, wars and deaths on the news

Identify the principal distinction between death as depicted in video games and death in reality.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, depict · To what, where: principal distinction, video games

This is exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 distinction	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distinction	amod
4	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distinction	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 depicted	mark
8	depicted	depict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 games	case
10	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 games	compound
11	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 depicted	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 death	cc
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 games	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 reality	case
15	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 games	nmod
16	.	.	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 distinction				between death	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent distinction=Theme
2	depict	participle	you not said here			video games in reality and death			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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

In reality the deceased returns after a brief interval

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 reality	case
2	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 returns	det
4	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 returns	amod
5	returns	return	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reality	nmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 interval	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 interval	det
8	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 interval	amod
9	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returns	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decease	participle							vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

In video games death is irreversible whereas in reality it is not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 games	case
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 games	compound
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whereas	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whereas	cop
6	irreversible	irreversible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whereas	amod
7	whereas	wherea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 games	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 reality	case
9	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whereas	nmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 is	nsubj
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 games	acl:relcl
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	death	irreversible whereas		reality			tree rules
2	not be	present	death	video games and irreversible whereas not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot game=Theme

Option 3

There exists no distinction between the two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 exists	expl
2	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 distinction	det
4	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exists	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 two	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 two	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 distinction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present		no distinction		there		between the two	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In reality death is irreversible and causes grief to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 death	case
2	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 death	compound
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 irreversible	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 irreversible	cop
5	irreversible	irreversible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 causes	cc
7	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 irreversible	conj
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 others	case
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 causes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				reality death		irreversible property	tree rules
2	cause	present		grief				to others	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition grief=Patient

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