Exam question 2 · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises ADHD?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: ADHD

This is exam question 2 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	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	ADHD	adhd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		ADHD				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

It is bad behaviour that ceases with punishment

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 behaviour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 behaviour	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 behaviour	amod
4	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ceases	nsubj
6	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 behaviour	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 punishment	case
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ceases	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	bad behaviour					tree rules
2	cease	present	bad behaviour					with punishment	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with punishment=Subeventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a difference in how the brain works, not bad behaviour

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 difference	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difference	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 works	mark
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 works	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brain	det
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 works	nsubj
9	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difference	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 behaviour	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 behaviour	amod
13	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 difference	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a difference and bad behaviour					tree rules
2	work	present	the brain						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is an illness caught from others

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 illness	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 illness	det
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 illness	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 others	case
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a illness					tree rules
2	catch	participle		a illness not said here		others			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source

Option 4

It occurs only in adults

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	2 occurs	nsubj
2	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 adults	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occurs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	It	adults					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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