--- title: Select the response that most accurately characterises the assertion… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: Select the response that most accurately characterises the assertion "It is not untrue that Sam did not go to the party." Exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Olympiad: tricky comprehension](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Olympiad: tricky comprehension Select the response that most accurately characterises the assertion "It is not untrue that Sam did not go to the party." **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, most, It, Sam · **What happens:** select, characteris, not be, not go · **To what, where:** response, assertion, party · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 2 of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:e2:1 # text = Select the response that most accurately characterises the assertion "It is not untrue that Sam did not go to the party." 1 Select select VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 nsubj _ _ 6 accurately accurately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 characterises characteris VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 assertion assertion NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | **characteris** | present | most | the assertion | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | It | | | | | untrue *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Sam | | | the party | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sam attended the party ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:e2:o1:1 # text = Sam attended the party 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 attended attend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attend** | past | Sam | the party | | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme party=Goal | ### Option 2 {#o2} Sam attended only briefly ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:e2:o2:1 # text = Sam attended only briefly 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 attended attend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attend** | past | Sam | | | | | briefly *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Sam's attendance is unknown ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:e2:o3:1 # text = Sam's attendance is unknown 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 attendance attendance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Sam's attendance | | | | | unknown *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **attend** | | Sam | | | | | | nom attendance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Sam did not attend the party ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension:e2:o4:1 # text = Sam did not attend the party 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **attend** | past · do-support | Sam | the party | | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme party=Goal | **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. 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