Exam question 3 · Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning footprints displaying toes upon a hall carpet while the accused child wears socks.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, concerning footprints, accused child · What happens: select, establish, display, accuse, wear · To what, where: response, toes, socks

This is exam question 3 of lesson 162 «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» of the world 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	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 footprints	amod
10	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	displaying	display	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 footprints	acl
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 displaying	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 carpet	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 carpet	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carpet	compound
16	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 displaying	obl
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 wears	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wears	nsubj
21	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 displaying	advcl
22	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wears	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	display	gerund	concerning footprints not said here	toes	upon a hall carpet	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme
4	accuse	participle				vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	wear	present	the accused child	socks		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sock=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 evidence is irrelevant to the enquiry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evidence	det
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irrelevant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 irrelevant	cop
4	irrelevant	irrelevant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 enquiry	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 enquiry	det
7	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irrelevant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the evidence					to the enquiry; irrelevant property	tree rules

Option 2

The evidence indicates an intruder who walked in wearing heavy boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evidence	det
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	nsubj
3	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 intruder	det
5	intruder	intruder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 intruder	acl:relcl
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 wearing	mark
9	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 walked	advcl
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boots	amod
11	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	indicate	present	the evidence	a intruder	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot intruder=Topic
2	walk	past	a intruder		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wear	gerund	a intruder not said here	heavy boots	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The evidence indicates the dog rather than the child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evidence	det
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	nsubj
3	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	obj
6	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 child	cc
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 rather	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	the evidence	the dog					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dog=Topic

Option 4

The evidence confirms the child's guilt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 evidence	det
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confirms	nsubj
3	confirms	confirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guilt	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confirms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confirm	present	the evidence	the child's guilt					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot guilt=Topic

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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