Exam question 3 · When Grandma and Grandad need more help
It is given that a relative "attends daily to the medication and meals" of an elderly parent without remuneration. Determine the most accurate description of that relative.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: relative, you · What happens: give, attend, determine, describe · To what, where: It, accurate description, relative
This is exam question 3 of lesson 23 «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that a relative "attends daily to the medication and meals" of an elderly parent without remuneration.
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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 attends | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 relative | det |
| 6 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attends | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 relative | punct |
| 8 | attends | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 8 attends | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 medication | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 medication | det |
| 12 | medication | medication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attends | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meals | cc |
| 14 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 medication | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 meals | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 parent | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 parent | det |
| 18 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 parent | amod |
| 19 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meals | nmod |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 remuneration | case |
| 21 | remuneration | remuneration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 parent | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | attend in a quote | present | a relative | to the medication and meals of a elderly parent without remuneration; daily property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to medication=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.
Sentence 2: Determine the most accurate description of that relative.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 description | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 accurate | advmod |
| 4 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 description | amod |
| 5 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 relative | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 relative | det |
| 8 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 description | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the accurate description of that relative | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Topic | ||||
| 2 | describe | that relative | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An unpaid carer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carer | det |
| 2 | unpaid | unpaid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carer | amod |
| 3 | carer | carer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A medical practitioner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 practitioner | det |
| 2 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 practitioner | amod |
| 3 | practitioner | practitioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A care home manager
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 manager | det |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 home | compound |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 manager | compound |
| 4 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A hired domestic cleaner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cleaner | det |
| 2 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cleaner | amod |
| 3 | domestic | domestic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleaner | compound |
| 4 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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