Exam question 3 · Cheating at school: copying and peeking

Select the response consistent with the teaching of Exodus 23:2 where many pupils obtain test answers improperly.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many pupils · What happens: select, obtain, teach · To what, where: response, test answers, Exodus

This is exam question 3 of lesson 92 «Cheating at school: copying and peeking» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 teaching	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teaching	det
7	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Exodus	case
9	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 teaching	nmod
10	23:2	23:2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 Exodus	flat
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 obtain	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pupils	amod
13	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 obtain	nsubj
14	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 teaching	acl:relcl
15	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answers	compound
16	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 obtain	obj
17	improperly	improperly	ADV	_	14 obtain	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	obtain	present	many pupils	test answers	improperly property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
3	teach			Exodus		nom teaching «act transitive»: of=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

The pupil ought to absent himself from the test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 absent	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 absent	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 absent	mark
5	absent	absent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 absent	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 test	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 test	det
9	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 absent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent	ought	the pupil	pupil		the test			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The pupil ought to obtain the answers from a different source

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obtain	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 obtain	mark
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answers	det
7	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 obtain	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 source	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 source	det
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 source	amod
11	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	ought	the pupil	the answers		a different source			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent answer=Theme from source=Source

Option 3

The pupil ought to follow the majority in order to remain competitive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 follow	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 follow	mark
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 majority	det
7	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 remain	mark
11	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 follow	advcl
12	competitive	competitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 remain	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	ought	the pupil	the majority		order			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent majority=Theme in order=Trajectory
2	remain	to-infinitive	the pupil not said here					competitive property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The pupil ought not to follow the majority in wrongdoing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 follow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 follow	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 majority	det
8	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 wrongdoing	case
10	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not follow	ought	the pupil	the majority		wrongdoing			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent majority=Theme in wrongdoing=Trajectory

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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