Exam question 3 · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

Select the response consistent with established guidance where a child is touched in a manner that feels wrong.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, manner · What happens: select, establish, touch, feel · To what, where: response, child, manner

This is exam question 3 of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 guidance	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 guidance	amod
7	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 touched	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	aux:pass
12	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 guidance	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 manner	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 manner	det
15	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touched	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 feels	nsubj
17	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 manner	acl:relcl
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feels	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	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	touch	present · passive		a child	a manner		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	feel	present	a manner			wrong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

It is never his fault; he informs a trusted adult and persists until helped

The tree, 14 words

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	5 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fault	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 informs	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 informs	nsubj
8	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 adult	amod
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 informs	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 persists	cc
13	persists	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 informs	conj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 helped	mark
15	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 persists	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	his fault		tree rules
2	inform speech: other	present	he		a trusted adult	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	persist	present	he not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	participle	he not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He tells only another child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 child	advmod
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	He		another child				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He keeps it secret to avoid trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avoid	mark
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 secret	advcl
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	avoid	to-infinitive	He not said here	trouble					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location

Option 4

It is his fault if he did not refuse

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 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fault	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fault	nmod:poss
4	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 refuse	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 refuse	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 refuse	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 refuse	advmod
9	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fault	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	his fault					tree rules
2	not refuse a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	he	his fault not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme

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