Exam question 2 · The parents walk in: how good parents react

Determine the consequence which this lesson attributes to the habitual shouting at a child who discloses such an incident.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lesson, habitual, child · What happens: determine, attribute, shout, disclose · To what, where: consequence, incident

This is exam question 2 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 consequence	det
3	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 attributes	obj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lesson	det
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attributes	nsubj
7	attributes	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consequence	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 habitual	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 habitual	det
10	habitual	habitual	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attributes	obl
11	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 habitual	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 child	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shouting	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 discloses	nsubj
16	discloses	disclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 child	acl:relcl
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 incident	det:predet
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 incident	det
19	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 discloses	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the consequence		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic
2	attribute	present	this lesson	the consequence	to the habitual	tree rules
3	shout speech: express	gerund	the habitual not said here		at a child	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	disclose	present	a child	such incident		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Topic

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

The child is likely to disclose more promptly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 disclose	mark
6	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 disclose	advmod
8	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	6 disclose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child					likely property	tree rules
2	disclose	to-infinitive	the child not said here					promptly property	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

The child will thereafter avoid all screens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoid	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 avoid	aux
4	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	5 avoid	advmod
5	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 screens	det
7	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	future	the child	all screens				thereafter property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent screen=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The child is likely to conceal future incidents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 conceal	mark
6	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 incidents	amod
8	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conceal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the child					likely property	tree rules
2	conceal	to-infinitive	the child not said here	future incidents					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The child will thereby become better behaved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
4	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	5 become	advmod
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 behaved	advmod
7	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	the child					thereby property	tree rules
2	behave	participle	the child not said here					well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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