Exam question 3 · Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside

Select the response most consistent with honesty where a speaker is uncertain whether he committed a foul.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, speaker · What happens: select, be, commit · To what, where: response, foul

This is exam question 3 of lesson 98 «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 honesty	case
7	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consistent	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 uncertain	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 speaker	det
10	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uncertain	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 uncertain	cop
12	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 honesty	acl
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 committed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 committed	nsubj
15	committed	commit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 uncertain	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 foul	det
17	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 committed	obj
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	is	present	a speaker		uncertain property	tree rules
3	commit	past	speaker	a foul		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foul=Theme

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

The candid admission of his uncertainty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 admission	det
2	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 admission	amod
3	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 uncertainty	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 uncertainty	nmod:poss
6	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 admission	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit			his uncertainty					nom admission «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The confident denial of having committed the foul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 denial	det
2	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 denial	amod
3	denial	denial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 committed	mark
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 committed	aux
6	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 denial	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foul	det
8	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 committed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commit	gerund · perfect	the confident denial not said here	the foul					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foul=Theme

Option 3

The attribution of the foul to an opponent

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	_	5 foul	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foul	det
5	foul	foul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attribution	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 opponent	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 opponent	det
8	opponent	opponent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attribution	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute			the foul				to a opponent	nom attribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient to=obl

Option 4

The refusal to answer any question concerning the incident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 refusal	det
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 answer	mark
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refusal	acl
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	obj
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 question	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 incident	det
9	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive		any question					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	concern	gerund	any question not said here	the incident					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus incident=Experiencer

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