Exam question 4 · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★

Select the statement consistent with the established facts concerning children whose parents separate.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, parents · What happens: select, establish, concern, separate · To what, where: statement

This is exam question 4 of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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 statement	det
3	statement	statement	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	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	appos
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 parents	nmod:poss
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 separate	nsubj
13	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 children	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the statement	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	separate	present	parents			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The separation is never the child's fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 separation	det
2	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fault	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fault	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 fault	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fault	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the separation	the child's fault					tree rules

Option 2

Good behaviour can reverse a separation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 behaviour	amod
2	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reverse	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reverse	aux
4	reverse	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 separation	det
6	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reverse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reverse	can	Good behaviour	a separation					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent separation=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Children must choose a parent at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 choose	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 choose	aux
3	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parent	det
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 choose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	must	Children	a parent					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent parent=Theme at once=Asset

Option 4

The child's behaviour is usually the cause

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 behaviour	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cause	cop
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 cause	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the child's behaviour	the cause				usually property	tree rules

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