Exam question 4 · Growing, seeing and hearing

Ascertain the manner most helpful when addressing a person who wears a hearing aid.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: ascertain, address, wear · To what, where: person, hearing aid

This is exam question 4 of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helpful	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 helpful	advmod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	ccomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 addressing	advmod
7	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 helpful	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 addressing	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wears	nsubj
11	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 aid	det
13	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 aid	compound
14	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wears	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	address	gerund	you not said here		a person	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Destination
3	wear	present	a person	a hearing aid		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent aid=Source

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

Facing the person and speaking clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Facing	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 speaking	cc
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Facing	conj
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	5 speaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	gerund			the person				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Destination
2	speak speech: other	gerund						clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Speaking from behind the person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 person	case
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 person	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						from the person	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Shouting directly into the ear fitted with the aid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fitted	csubj
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	1 Shouting	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ear	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ear	det
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obl
6	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 aid	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 aid	det
9	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund				the ear		directly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient
2	fit	participle	Shouting					with the aid	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Whispering so as not to be too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	1 Whispering	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 loud	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 loud	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	8 loud	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 loud	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 loud	advmod
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Whispering	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	to-infinitive						loud 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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