Exam question 1 · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises privacy in the bathroom?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: privacy, bathroom

This is exam question 1 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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	privacy	privacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bathroom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bathroom	det
12	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
13	?	?	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		privacy		the bathroom		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

Only adults are entitled to privacy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 entitled	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 entitled	aux:pass
4	entitled	entitle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 privacy	case
6	privacy	privacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entitled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entitle	present · passive		adults				to privacy	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The door is closed, and others knock and wait before entering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux:pass
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knock	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knock	cc
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knock	nsubj
8	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wait	cc
10	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knock	conj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 entering	mark
12	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	close	present · passive		the door	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	knock	present	others		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	wait	present	others not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	enter	gerund	others not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The door is kept wide open so that everyone in the family can come and go

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 come	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 come	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	nmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		the door	open, wide property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	can	everyone			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	infinitive	everyone not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Knocking is required only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive		Knocking			night		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

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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