Exam question 4 · Greeting adults and teachers
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the respect owed to a school caretaker?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, owe · To what, where: respect, school caretaker
This is exam question 4 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 respect | det |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterises | obj |
| 11 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 respect | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 caretaker | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 caretaker | det |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caretaker | compound |
| 15 | caretaker | caretaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owed | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | the respect | of the following statements; accurately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | owe | participle | the respect not said here | to a school caretaker goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to caretaker=Goal |
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
It is less than that owed to any teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 less | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 less | cop |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 less | obl |
| 6 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 less | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 teacher | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 teacher | det |
| 9 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | than that; less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | owe | participle | any teacher | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to teacher=Goal |
Option 2
It is owed only in the presence of parents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 owed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 owed | aux:pass |
| 3 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 presence | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 presence | det |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 parents | case |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 presence | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present · passive | It | the presence of parents | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is the same as that owed to the head teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 same | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 owed | mark |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 owed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 same | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 teacher | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 teacher | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teacher | compound |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | owe | participle · passive | that | the head teacher | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to teacher=Goal |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It is owed solely if the caretaker is older
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 owed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 owed | aux:pass |
| 3 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 3 owed | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 older | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caretaker | det |
| 7 | caretaker | caretaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 older | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 older | cop |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 owed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present · passive | It | solely property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the caretaker | old property | tree rules |
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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