Exam question 4 · Chores you skipped

Determine what remains to be done by a child who has confessed neglecting the plants of a grandparent.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: determine, remain, do, confess, neglect · To what, where: plants

This is exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 remains	nsubj
3	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	6 done	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 remains	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 child	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 confessed	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 confessed	aux
12	confessed	confess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 child	acl:relcl
13	neglecting	neglect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 confessed	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plants	det
15	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 neglecting	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 grandparent	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grandparent	det
18	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plants	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remain	present			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive · passive	a child		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	confess	present · perfect	a child		vn confess-37.10 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	neglect	gerund	a child not said here	the plants of a grandparent	vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

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

She ought to purchase a plant for the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 purchase	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 purchase	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 purchase	mark
4	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purchase	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purchase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purchase	ought	She	a plant				for the church	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent plant=Theme for church=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She ought to conceal the matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 conceal	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 conceal	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 conceal	mark
4	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conceal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	ought	She	the matter					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient

Option 3

Nothing further is required

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	further	further	ADV	_	4 required	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 required	aux:pass
4	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive						further property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She ought to inform the grandparent and replace a plant at her own expense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 inform	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 inform	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 inform	mark
4	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandparent	det
6	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inform	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 replace	cc
8	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inform	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replace	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 expense	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 expense	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 expense	amod
14	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replace	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	ought	She	the grandparent					vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandparent=Recipient
2	replace	infinitive	She not said here	a plant		her own expense			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=Co-Theme

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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