Exam question 2 · Younger children, losing and practising

Which of the following constitutes appropriate conduct when looking after a younger sibling at a park?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, look · To what, where: constitutes

This is exam question 2 of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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	7 conduct	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 conduct	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conduct	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 conduct	csubj
5	constitutes	constitute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 following	obj
6	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 conduct	amod
7	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 conduct	acl
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 sibling	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sibling	det
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 sibling	amod
13	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 park	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 park	det
16	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conduct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		constitutes					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitute=Theme
2	look	gerund					after a younger sibling	at a park	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at park=Theme

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

Allowing him near water alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Allowing	obj
3	near	near	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Allowing	obl
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Allowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	gerund			him = he	water		alone property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Keeping him in sight and telling an adult at once if lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeping	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 sight	case
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 telling	cc
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Keeping	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 telling	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Keeping	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	keep	gerund	him = he		sight	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sight=Location
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	lose a condition, not said to happen	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Leaving him to play while one plays elsewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 plays	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leaving	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leaving	xcomp
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 one	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 play	obj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	7 plays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		him = he		tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	one		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	play	present	Leaving		elsewhere property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Searching alone for an hour before telling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Searching	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Searching	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Searching	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	gerund					hour	alone property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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