Exam question 4 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

Determine the term properly applied to the imposition of an additional condition after the original condition of an agreement has been satisfied.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: determine, apply, be, impose, condition · To what, where: term, additional condition, agreement

This is exam question 4 of lesson 163 «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 satisfied	nsubj
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 applied	advmod
5	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 term	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 imposition	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 imposition	det
8	imposition	imposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 applied	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 condition	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 condition	det
11	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 condition	amod
12	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 imposition	nmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 condition	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 condition	det
15	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 condition	amod
16	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 condition	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 agreement	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 agreement	det
19	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 condition	nmod
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 satisfied	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 satisfied	cop
22	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Determine	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	apply	participle		the term not said here	to the imposition of a additional condition after the original condition of a agreement; properly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present · perfect	the term		satisfied property	tree rules
4	impose			a additional condition after the original condition of a agreement		nom imposition «act transitive»: of=patient
5	condition			a agreement		nom condition «state 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 · ← Mova's choice

The slippery slope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slope	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slope	amod
3	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Moving the goalposts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goalposts	det
3	goalposts	goalpost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		the goalposts					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme

Option 3

Confirmation bias

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bias	compound
2	bias	bias	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Appeal to authority

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 authority	case
3	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Appeal	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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