Exam question 2 · When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do

Identify the principal deficiency of consolation commencing with the words «at least».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, consolation · What happens: identify, commence · To what, where: principal deficiency, least

This is exam question 2 of lesson 61 «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 deficiency	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deficiency	amod
4	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 consolation	case
6	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deficiency	nmod
7	commencing	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 consolation	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 words	det
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 commencing	obl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 least	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 commencing	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 least	punct
15	.	.	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 deficiency of consolation					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deficiency=Theme
2	commence	gerund	consolation not said here			least		with the words	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with word=Subeventuality

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

It may diminish the significance of the bereaved person's loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 diminish	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 diminish	aux
3	diminish	diminish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 significance	det
5	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diminish	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 loss	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	bereaved	bereaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loss	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 person	case
11	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 significance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diminish	may	It	the significance of the bereaved person's loss					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer significance=Patient

Option 2

It is excessively brief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brief	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brief	cop
3	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	4 brief	advmod
4	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					brief, excessively property	tree rules

Option 3

It is forbidden by religious law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbidden	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 law	amod
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forbidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive	religious law	It					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 4

It is grammatically incorrect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 incorrect	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 incorrect	cop
3	grammatically	grammatically	ADV	_	4 incorrect	advmod
4	incorrect	incorrect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					grammatically, incorrect property	tree rules

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