Exam question 1 · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

Identify the appropriate manner of addressing a wheelchair user accompanied by another person.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, appropriate manner · What happens: identify, address, accompany · To what, where: appropriate manner, wheelchair user

This is exam question 1 of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 manner	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manner	amod
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 addressing	mark
6	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 manner	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 user	det
8	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 user	compound
9	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 addressing	obj
10	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 user	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 person	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accompanied	obl:agent
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate manner	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	address	gerund	the appropriate manner not said here	a wheelchair user	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent user=Destination
3	accompany	participle		a wheelchair user not said here	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

One speaks directly to the wheelchair user

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 speaks	nsubj
2	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 speaks	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 user	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 user	det
6	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 user	compound
7	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	One					to the wheelchair user; directly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to user=Co-Agent

Option 2

One speaks loudly and slowly to the companion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 speaks	nsubj
2	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 speaks	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slowly	cc
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 loudly	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 companion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 companion	det
8	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	One					to the companion; loudly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to companion=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

One pushes the chair while speaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chair	det
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 speaking	mark
6	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pushes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	One	the chair					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund	One not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

One speaks only to the companion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 speaks	nsubj
2	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 companion	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 companion	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 companion	det
6	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	One					to the companion	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to companion=Co-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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