Exam question 1 · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the manner of addressing a person who uses a wheelchair?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: manner, person · What happens: follow, characteris, address, use · To what, where: manner, person, wheelchair

This is exam question 1 of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 manner	det
10	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 addressing	mark
12	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 manner	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 addressing	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 uses	nsubj
16	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 person	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wheelchair	det
18	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uses	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the manner		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	address	gerund	the manner not said here		a person		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Destination
4	use	present	a person	a wheelchair			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=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

One avoids speaking to them altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 avoids	nsubj
2	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 avoids	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speaking	obl
6	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	3 speaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	One						vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund	One not said here		them = they			altogether property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent

Option 2

One speaks only to their 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	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 companion	nmod:poss
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 their companion	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to companion=Co-Agent

Option 3

One speaks loudly and slowly

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One speaks to the person directly

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	to	to	ADP	_	5 person	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speaks	obl
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 speaks	advmod

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