Exam question 1 · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the treatment of telephone calls from unknown numbers to a child?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, treat · To what, where: treatment, telephone calls
This is exam question 1 of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 calls | case |
| 12 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calls | compound |
| 13 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 treatment | nmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 numbers | case |
| 15 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 numbers | amod |
| 16 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 calls | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 child | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 numbers | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | 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 | the treatment of telephone calls from unknown numbers to a child | of the following statements; accurately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | treat | telephone calls from unknown numbers to a child | 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
They shall be returned later the same day
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 | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 returned | aux:pass |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | shall · passive | They | day | late property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
They shall be answered promptly and in full by the child
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 | 4 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | aux:pass |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 full | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 full | case |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 promptly | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | shall · passive | the child | They | promptly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
Option 3
They shall be answered with one's address
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 | 4 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | aux:pass |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 address | case |
| 6 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 address | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 one | case |
| 8 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | shall · passive | They | with one's address | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | address | one | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They shall be answered by a parent, or not at all
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 | 4 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | aux:pass |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 parent | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parent | det |
| 7 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 not | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 not | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 answered | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 not | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | shall · passive | a parent | They | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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