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Exam question 4 · Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness

It is given that a younger sibling with an injured arm receives assistance at meals. Determine which conception of fairness is applied.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: younger sibling, you · What happens: give, injure, receive, determine, apply, conceive · To what, where: It, assistance, meals, conception, fairness

This is exam question 4 of lesson 33 «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 younger sibling with an injured arm receives assistance at meals.

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	_	12 receives	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sibling	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 sibling	amod
7	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 receives	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 arm	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 arm	det
10	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 arm	amod
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sibling	nmod
12	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
13	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 receives	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 meals	case
15	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 receives	obl
16	.	.	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	injure	participle							tree rules
3	receive	present	a younger sibling with a injured arm	assistance		meals			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme at meal=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.

Sentence 2: Determine which conception of fairness is applied.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 conception	det
3	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 applied	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fairness	case
5	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conception	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 applied	aux:pass
7	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	apply	present · passive		which conception of fairness					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	conceive			fairness					nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fairness according to age alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Fairness	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 age	mark
4	age	age	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 according	xcomp
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 age	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund	Fairness not said here						tree rules
2	age	to-infinitive	Fairness not said here					alone property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fairness according to need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Fairness	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 need	mark
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 according	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund	Fairness not said here						tree rules
2	need	to-infinitive	Fairness not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Identical treatment of every person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 treatment	amod
2	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 person	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treatment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat			every person					nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Fairness determined by the loudest complaint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fairness	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 complaint	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 complaint	det
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 complaint	amod
6	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	participle		Fairness not said here				by the loudest complaint	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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