Exam question 3 · Your uh-oh feeling
Identify the correct statement concerning a child's entitlement to refuse an adult.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, concern, refuse · To what, where: correct statement, adult
This is exam question 3 of lesson 19 «Your uh-oh feeling» 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 | 4 statement | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 statement | amod |
| 4 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 entitlement | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entitlement | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 child | case |
| 9 | entitlement | entitlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 statement | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 refuse | mark |
| 11 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 entitlement | acl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adult | det |
| 13 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 refuse | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the correct statement | concern a child's entitlement | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent statement=Theme | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | refuse | to-infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme |
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
A child may never refuse an adult under any circumstance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 5 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 circumstance | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 circumstance | det |
| 10 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | may | a child | a adult | any circumstance | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme |
Option 2
A child may refuse an adult only with a written reason
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | obj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 reason | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 reason | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reason | det |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 reason | amod |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | may | a child | a adult | with a written reason | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A child may refuse any adult, including one known to him, where something feels unsafe
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
| 8 | including | including | ADP | _ | 10 known | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 refuse | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 known | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feels | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 feels | advmod |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 feels | nsubj |
| 16 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | advcl |
| 17 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feels | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | may | a child | any adult | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | participle · passive | one | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | something | unsafe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
A child may refuse only adults who are strangers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 adults | advmod |
| 6 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 refuse | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 strangers | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 strangers | cop |
| 9 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 adults | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | may | a child | adults | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | adults | strangers | 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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