Exam question 1 · Growing up, honesty and manners

Identify the person or persons to whom questions concerning the changes of a growing body are properly addressed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, questions, growing body · What happens: identify, concern, grow, address, change · To what, where: person, changes, questions

This is exam question 1 of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 persons	cc
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 person	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 persons	nmod
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 addressed	nsubj:pass
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 questions	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 changes	det
11	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 body	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 body	det
14	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 body	amod
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changes	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 addressed	aux:pass
17	properly	properly	ADV	_	18 addressed	advmod
18	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whom	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person or persons to the person or persons to the person		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	concern	gerund	questions not said here	the changes of a growing body		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus change=Experiencer
3	grow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	address	present · passive		questions	properly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
5	change		a growing body			nom change «event intransitive»: of=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

Older pupils encountered in the playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pupils	amod
2	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 encountered	nsubj
3	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 playground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 playground	det
6	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 encountered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encounter	past	Older pupils			the playground			vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Strangers upon internet forums and chats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 forums	case
3	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forums	compound
4	forums	forum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Strangers	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chats	cc
6	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forums	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A parent, the school nurse or a doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nurse	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nurse	compound
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parent	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 doctor	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doctor	det
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parent	conj

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

Option 4

No one, as such questions are forbidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forbidden	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 questions	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 questions	case
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 forbidden	aux:pass
8	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present · passive		no one and such questions					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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