Exam question 4 · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

State the matter on which a child who is adopted or in foster care may decide.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: state, adopt, decide · To what, where: matter, child

This is exam question 4 of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 decide	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 decide	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 adopted	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 adopted	aux:pass
10	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 child	acl:relcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 care	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 care	case
13	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 care	compound
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 adopted	conj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 decide	aux
16	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 matter	acl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the matter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent matter=Topic
2	adopt	present · passive		a child		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	decide	may	a child		on the matter	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on which=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

What, if anything, they share about their story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 share	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 share	mark
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 share	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 anything	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 share	nsubj
7	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 story	nmod:poss
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	they					about their story; anything vocative	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, since others must be told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 told	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	4 others	case
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	nmod
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must · passive		Nothing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Whether teachers may know their name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 know	mark
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	may	teachers	teachers's name					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	name		teachers = teacher						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Which classmates must be told everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 classmates	det
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must · passive		which classmates					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient everything=Topic

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