Exam question 3 · Family changes and grief

Select the response consistent with established practice in respect of an adopted child's personal history.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, establish, adopt, respect · To what, where: response, personal history

This is exam question 3 of lesson 214 «Family changes and grief» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	amod
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	16 history	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 history	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 child	case
15	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 history	amod
16	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	adopt	participle			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	respect			a adopted child's personal history	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

It must be kept secret from the child

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 kept	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must · passive		It				from the child; secret property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from child=Eventuality

Option 2

Teachers must announce it to all pupils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 announce	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 announce	aux
3	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 announce	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pupils	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 pupils	det
7	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 announce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	announce speech: other	must	Teachers	it	all pupils				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to pupil=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The child shares only that which he wishes to share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shares	nsubj
3	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 wishes	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wishes	mark
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wishes	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wishes	nsubj
8	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shares	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 share	mark
10	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wishes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	share	present	the child	tree rules
2	wish	present		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	share not said to happen	to-infinitive		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The child is obliged to tell the whole class when asked to do so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obliged	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 class	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 class	amod
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
11	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tell	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive	the child	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the whole class	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	participle		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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