Exam question 2 · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

Select the response consistent with the established usage of the term "time out" in respect of the discipline of young children.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, use, respect, discipline · To what, where: response, term, discipline, young children

This is exam question 2 of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 usage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 usage	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 usage	amod
8	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 term	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 term	det
11	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 usage	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 term	appos
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 time	compound:prt
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 time	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 respect	case
17	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 discipline	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 discipline	det
20	discipline	discipline	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 respect	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 children	case
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 discipline	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	use			the term		nom usage «act transitive»: of=patient
4	respect			the discipline of young children		nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	discipline			young children		nom discipline «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A brief period of enforced solitude as a sanction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 period	det
2	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 period	amod
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 solitude	case
5	enforced	enforce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 solitude	amod
6	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 sanction	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sanction	det
9	sanction	sanction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enforce	participle							vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

An interval of recreation out of doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 interval	det
2	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 recreation	case
4	recreation	recreation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 interval	nmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 doors	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 doors	case
7	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 interval	nmod

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

Option 3

A cessation of timekeeping during a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cessation	det
2	cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 timekeeping	case
4	timekeeping	timekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cessation	nmod
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cessation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease			timekeeping			during a game		nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient during=obl

Option 4

An early dismissal from school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dismissal	det
2	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dismissal	amod
3	dismissal	dismissal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dismissal	nmod

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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