Exam question 1 · The parents walk in: how good parents react

Identify the principal object of a parent who, upon learning that a child has viewed adult material by accident, enquires as to the child's feelings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, parent, accident · What happens: identify, learn, view, enquire · To what, where: principal object, child

This is exam question 1 of lesson 59 «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 object	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 object	amod
4	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 parent	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 parent	det
7	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 object	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 learning	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learning	punct
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 learning	mark
11	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 parent	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 viewed	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 viewed	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 viewed	aux
16	viewed	view	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 learning	advcl
17	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 material	amod
18	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 viewed	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 accident	case
20	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 viewed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 enquires	punct
22	enquires	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
23	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 feelings	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feelings	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 child	case
28	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 enquires	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal object of a parent		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	learn	gerund	a parent			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	view	present · perfect · passive	accident	a child		tree rules
4	enquire speech: other	present			as the child's feelings	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The care of the child's emotional wellbeing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 care	det
2	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 wellbeing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wellbeing	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wellbeing	amod
8	wellbeing	wellbeing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 care	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care		the child's emotional wellbeing						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The satisfaction of the parent's curiosity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 satisfaction	det
2	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 curiosity	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parent	det
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curiosity	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 parent	case
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 satisfaction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	satisfy			the parent's curiosity					nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The collection of evidence for a punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 collection	det
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 evidence	case
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collection	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 punishment	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 punishment	det
7	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	nmod

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

Option 4

The assessment of the child's memory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assessment	det
2	assessment	assessment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 memory	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 memory	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assessment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assess			the child's memory					nom assessment «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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