Exam question 1 · Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book

Which of the following most accurately characterises the act of owning up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: act · What happens: follow, characteris, own up · To what, where: act

This is exam question 1 of lesson 89 «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 characterises	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 characterises	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 characterises	csubj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 act	det
9	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 owning	mark
11	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 act	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 owning	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the act	accurately property	tree rules
3	own up	gerund	the act not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 concealment of wrongdoing until its discovery by others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 concealment	det
2	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wrongdoing	case
4	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 concealment	nmod
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 discovery	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 discovery	nmod:poss
7	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 concealment	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 concealment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal		others	wrongdoing			until wrongdoing's discovery		nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient until=obl by=agent
2	discover		wrongdoing						nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The acknowledgement of wrongdoing committed exclusively by others, and never by oneself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acknowledgement	det
2	acknowledgement	acknowledgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 oneself	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wrongdoing	case
4	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acknowledgement	nmod
5	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 acknowledgement	acl
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	5 committed	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 others	case
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 committed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 oneself	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 oneself	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 oneself	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 oneself	case
13	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commit	participle		the acknowledgement of wrongdoing not said here				by others; exclusively property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The voluntary acknowledgement of one's own wrongdoing prior to another's being blamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 acknowledgement	det
2	voluntary	voluntary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 acknowledgement	amod
3	acknowledgement	acknowledgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 wrongdoing	case
5	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wrongdoing	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 one	case
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wrongdoing	amod
8	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acknowledgement	nmod
9	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	14 blamed	mark
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 prior	fixed
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 prior	conj
12	's	's	PART	_	11 another	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 blamed	aux:pass
14	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 acknowledgement	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund · passive		the voluntary acknowledgement of one's own wrongdoing not said here					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»

Option 4

The attribution of one's wrongdoing to another party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attribution	det
2	attribution	attribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 wrongdoing	case
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrongdoing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attribution	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 party	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrongdoing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute			one's wrongdoing to another party					nom attribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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