Exam question 3 · A new baby in the house

Pursuant to the provisions customary in Britain, paternity leave is best characterised as which of the following?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: characteris, follow · To what, where: paternity leave

This is exam question 3 of lesson 19 «A new baby in the house» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	13 characterised	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 customary	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 customary	det
4	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 customary	compound
5	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pursuant	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Britain	case
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 customary	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pursuant	punct
9	paternity	paternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	compound
10	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 characterised	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 characterised	aux:pass
12	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 characterised	advmod
13	characterised	characteris	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 following	mark
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 following	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 following	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 following	det
18	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 characterised	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 characterised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present · passive		paternity leave				pursuant, well property	tree rules
2	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 permanent cessation of employment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cessation	det
2	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cessation	amod
3	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 employment	case
5	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cessation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease			employment					nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A period of leave granted only to mothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 period	det
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 leave	case
4	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	nmod
5	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 period	acl
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 mothers	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 mothers	case
8	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 granted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	participle		a period of leave not said here	mothers				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to mother=Goal

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A period of leave from employment, usually two weeks, granted to a new father

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 period	det
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 leave	case
4	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 employment	case
6	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weeks	punct
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 weeks	advmod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 weeks	nummod
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 period	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 granted	punct
12	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 period	appos
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 father	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 father	amod
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 granted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	participle			a new father				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to father=Goal

Option 4

A period of unpaid holiday taken abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 period	det
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
4	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 holiday	amod
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 period	nmod
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle · passive		a period of unpaid holiday				abroad property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/e3/