Exam question 4 · Being a good grown-up

Ascertain the emotions most commonly experienced by a parent upon the departure of an adult child for employment in a distant city.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, adult child · What happens: ascertain, experience, depart · To what, where: emotions

This is exam question 4 of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emotions	det
3	emotions	emotion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 commonly	advmod
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	_	6 experienced	advmod
6	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 emotions	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 parent	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parent	det
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 experienced	obl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 departure	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 departure	det
12	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 experienced	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 child	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
15	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 child	amod
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 departure	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 employment	case
18	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 child	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 city	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 city	det
21	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 city	amod
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 employment	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the emotions		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Topic
2	experience	participle		the emotions not said here	by a parent; upon the departure of a adult child for employment in a distant city; commonly property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	depart		a adult child for employment in a distant city			nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

Relief and indifference simultaneously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 indifference	cc
3	indifference	indifference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Relief	conj
4	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	1 Relief	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pride and sadness simultaneously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sadness	cc
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pride	conj
4	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	_	1 Pride	advmod

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

Option 3

Fear and guilt exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 guilt	cc
3	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fear	conj
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	1 Fear	advmod

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

Option 4

Anger and resentment exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 resentment	cc
3	resentment	resentment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anger	conj
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	1 Anger	advmod

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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