Exam question 1 · Gran, cousins and the whole wide family

Which of the following designations correctly characterises the mother of one's spouse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: mother

This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 designations	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 designations	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 designations	amod
5	designations	designation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Which	nmod
6	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 spouse	case
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spouse	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 one	case
13	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the mother of one's spouse				correctly property	tree rules

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

Godmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Foster mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	compound
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mother-in-law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 law	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 in	punct
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mother	nmod

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

Option 4

Step-mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Step	punct
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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