Exam question 2 · New partners and step-families
A child born to the child's father and the father's new partner shall hereinafter be designated as which of the following?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bear, designate, follow · To what, where: child
This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «New partners and step-families» of the adult life 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 designated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 child | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 child | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 partner | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 partner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 partner | amod |
| 14 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 designated | aux |
| 16 | hereinafter | hereinafter | ADV | _ | 18 designated | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 designated | aux:pass |
| 18 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 following | mark |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 following | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 following | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 following | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 designated | advcl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 designated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | a child not said here | to the child's father and the father's new partner | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | designate | shall · passive | a child | hereinafter property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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
A step-sibling of the child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sibling | det |
| 2 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sibling | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 step | punct |
| 4 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sibling | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A foster sibling of the child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sibling | det |
| 2 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sibling | compound |
| 3 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 child | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sibling | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A half-sibling of the child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sibling | det |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 sibling | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 half | punct |
| 4 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sibling | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cousin of the child
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cousin | det |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 child | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cousin | 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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