Exam question 4 · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

Ascertain the appropriate response to an older relative with dementia who repeats a question.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dementia · What happens: ascertain, repeat · To what, where: appropriate response, question

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 response	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 relative	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 relative	det
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 relative	amod
8	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 response	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 dementia	case
10	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 relative	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 repeats	nsubj
12	repeats	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dementia	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 question	det
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 repeats	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response				to a older relative with dementia	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic
2	repeat	present	dementia	a question					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

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

To refuse to answer a second time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 refuse	mark
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 answer	mark
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refuse	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	to-infinitive							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not answer speech: assert	to-infinitive					time		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To answer kindly each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 answer	mark
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 answer	advmod
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive					time	kindly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To point out the repetition crossly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 point	mark
2	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 point	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 repetition	det
5	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 point	obj
6	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	2 point	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point out	to-infinitive		the repetition				crossly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repetition=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To leave the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 leave	mark
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		the room					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

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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