Exam question 2 · Home alone, the door and the phone

Identify the information which a child must never disclose to a stranger, by telephone, at the door or online.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, not disclose · To what, where: information, door, stranger

This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 information	det
3	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 disclose	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disclose	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 disclose	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 disclose	advmod
9	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 information	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 stranger	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disclose	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 telephone	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 telephone	case
15	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 door	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 online	cc
21	online	online	ADV	_	19 door	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the information		the door		by telephone	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent information=Theme
2	not disclose	must	a child	the information	a stranger				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to stranger=Recipient

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

The child's favourite colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colour	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colour	amod
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The weather in the child's town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 town	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weather	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That the child is home alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 child	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 home	cop
5	home	home	ADV	_	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 home	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that child					alone, home property	tree rules

Option 4

The name of the child's school sports team

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 team	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 team	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 child	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 team	compound
8	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 team	compound
9	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			the child's school sports team					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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