Exam question 3 · When grown-ups are tired or worried

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning financial difficulty within a household.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, financial difficulty

This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	financial	financial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 difficulty	amod
11	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	within	within	ADP	_	14 household	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 household	det
14	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	financial difficulty	within a household	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus difficulty=Experiencer

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

It is a rare occurrence affecting few families

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	5 occurrence	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 occurrence	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 occurrence	det
4	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 occurrence	amod
5	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	affecting	affect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 occurrence	acl
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 families	amod
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 affecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rare occurrence					tree rules
2	affect	gerund	a rare occurrence not said here	few families					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer

Option 2

It is invariably caused by the children's conduct

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	4 caused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 caused	aux:pass
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 caused	advmod
4	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 conduct	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 conduct	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 children	case
9	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	the children's conduct	It				invariably property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	conduct		the children						nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Its resolution is the duty of the eldest child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 resolution	nmod:poss
2	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 duty	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duty	det
5	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Its resolution	the duty				of the eldest child	tree rules
2	resolve		Its = it						nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its resolution is the responsibility of the adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 resolution	nmod:poss
2	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 responsibility	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 responsibility	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 responsibility	det
5	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 adults	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 adults	det
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 responsibility	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Its resolution	the responsibility				of the adults	tree rules
2	resolve		Its = it						nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=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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