Exam question 2 · Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the treatment of school staff such as caretakers and cleaners?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, treat · To what, where: treatment, school staff

This is exam question 2 of lesson 221 «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 treatment	det
10	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 staff	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 staff	compound
13	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 treatment	nmod
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 caretakers	case
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 such	fixed
16	caretakers	caretaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 staff	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cleaners	cc
18	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 caretakers	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the treatment of school staff such caretakers and cleaners	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	treat		school staff such caretakers and cleaners		nom treatment «act 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

They need not be greeted at all, being occupied with their duties

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	5 greeted	nsubj:pass
2	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greeted	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 greeted	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 greeted	aux:pass
5	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 greeted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 occupied	punct
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 occupied	cop
10	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 greeted	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 duties	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 duties	nmod:poss
13	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 occupied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not greet speech: greet	present · passive		They		all			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	gerund						with their duties; occupied property	tree rules

Option 2

They are to be greeted only by teachers

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	5 greeted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greeted	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 greeted	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 greeted	aux:pass
5	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	5 greeted	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 teachers	case
8	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greeted	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present · passive	teachers	They					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

They are to be greeted only on their birthdays

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	5 greeted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greeted	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 greeted	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 greeted	aux:pass
5	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 birthdays	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 birthdays	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 birthdays	nmod:poss
9	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greeted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present · passive		They					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are to be greeted as courteously as the head teacher

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	5 greeted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greeted	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 greeted	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 greeted	aux:pass
5	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 courteously	advmod
7	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	5 greeted	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teacher	compound
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 greeted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present · passive		They				as the head teacher; courteously property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as teacher=Attribute

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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