Exam question 4 · Greeting friends and relatives

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a person's entitlement in respect of hugs and kisses from family members?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, respect · To what, where: entitlement, respect, hugs

This is exam question 4 of lesson 122 «Greeting friends and relatives» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entitlement	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 person	case
12	entitlement	entitlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 respect	case
14	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 hugs	case
16	hugs	hug	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 respect	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kisses	cc
18	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hugs	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 members	case
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 members	compound
21	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hugs	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a person's entitlement	respect of hugs from family members and kisses	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	respect		hugs from family members and kisses			nom respect «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

They may refuse, and others should respect it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refuse	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 refuse	aux
3	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 respect	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 respect	cc
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 respect	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 respect	aux
8	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refuse	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 respect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	may	They						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	respect	should	others	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

They must accept unless they are unwell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accept	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 accept	aux
3	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	7 unwell	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unwell	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unwell	cop
7	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 accept	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	must	They						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	they					unwell property	tree rules

Option 3

They must accept, since the people are family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accept	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 accept	aux
3	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 family	punct
5	since	since	ADP	_	9 family	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 family	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 family	cop
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	must	They						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the people				since family		tree rules

Option 4

They may refuse only those from cousins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 refuse	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 refuse	aux
3	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 those	advmod
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 refuse	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 cousins	case
7	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refuse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	may	They	those		cousins			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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