Exam question 1 · The brother who never does anything wrong: double standard…

Identify the principal defect in a judgement whereby an identical act, committed at an identical age, is excused in one child and censured in another.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, commit, excuse, censure · To what, where: principal defect, judgement, identical act, identical age, another

This is exam question 1 of lesson 165 «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 defect	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 defect	amod
4	defect	defect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 judgement	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 judgement	det
7	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	20 excused	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 act	det
10	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 act	amod
11	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 excused	nsubj:pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 committed	punct
13	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 act	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 age	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 age	det
16	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 age	amod
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 committed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 act	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 excused	aux:pass
20	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 child	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 child	nummod
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 excused	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 censured	cc
25	censured	censure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 excused	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 censured	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal defect	a judgement			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent defect=Theme
2	commit	participle		a identical act not said here		at a identical age		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	excuse	present · passive		a identical act			in one child; whereby property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	censure	participle			another			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It constitutes a double standard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 standard	det
4	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 standard	amod
5	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a double standard					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme standard=Pivot

Option 2

It constitutes an appeal to tradition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 appeal	det
4	appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 tradition	case
6	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a appeal				to tradition	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme appeal=Pivot

Option 3

It constitutes a controlled experiment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 experiment	det
4	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 experiment	amod
5	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a controlled experiment					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme experiment=Pivot
2	control	participle							vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It constitutes a fair and reasonable exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 exception	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exception	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reasonable	cc
6	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fair	conj
7	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a fair exception					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exception=Pivot

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