Exam question 2 · Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how…

Determine the assessment which this lesson commends in respect of a child who has seen an adult film by accident.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lesson, child · What happens: determine, commend, see, respect · To what, where: assessment, respect, adult film, child

This is exam question 2 of lesson 58 «Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 assessment	det
3	assessment	assessment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 commends	obj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lesson	det
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commends	nsubj
7	commends	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assessment	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commends	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 child	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seen	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 child	acl:relcl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 film	det
17	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 film	compound
18	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 accident	case
20	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the assessment			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assessment=Topic
2	commend	present	this lesson	the assessment	respect of a child		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	see	present · perfect	a child	a adult film		by accident	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus
4	respect			a child			nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

That the child is wholly to blame for the incident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 child	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blame	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 blame	cop
5	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	7 blame	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 blame	mark
7	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 incident	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 incident	det
10	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that child					for the incident; blame, wholly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That the child is not at fault for the accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 child	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fault	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fault	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fault	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 fault	case
7	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 accident	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 accident	det
10	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fault	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	that child			fault		for the accident	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That the child has thereby become an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 child	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
5	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	6 become	advmod
6	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present · perfect	that child	a adult				thereby property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

That the child must view the remainder of the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 child	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 view	aux
5	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 remainder	det
7	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 film	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remainder	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	view	must	that child	the remainder of the film					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remainder=Stimulus

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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