Exam question 4 · Standing by a friend

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a pupil exhibiting anger whilst a parent is in hospital.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, pupil, parent · What happens: select, establish, concern, exhibit, be · To what, where: response, pupil, anger, hospital

This is exam question 4 of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pupil	det
11	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	exhibiting	exhibit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 pupil	acl
13	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exhibiting	obj
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	19 hospital	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 parent	det
16	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hospital	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hospital	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 hospital	case
19	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exhibiting	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a pupil			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pupil=Experiencer
4	exhibit	gerund	a pupil not said here	anger			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme
5	is	present	a parent		hospital		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 · ← Mova's choice

Such a pupil requires no consideration whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 pupil	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pupil	det
3	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 requires	nsubj
4	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 consideration	det
6	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 requires	obj
7	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	4 requires	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	such pupil	no consideration				whatsoever property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme consideration=Precondition

Option 2

Such a pupil ought to be excluded by peers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 pupil	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pupil	det
3	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 excluded	nsubj:pass
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 excluded	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	7 excluded	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 excluded	aux:pass
7	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 peers	case
9	peers	peer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 excluded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclude	ought · passive	peers	such pupil					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 3

Such anger indicates a wicked character

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 anger	amod
2	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	nsubj
3	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 character	det
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 character	amod
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 indicates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	Such anger	a wicked character					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot character=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Small acts of kindness assist such a pupil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 acts	amod
2	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 assist	case
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assist	compound
5	assist	assist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acts	nmod
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 pupil	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pupil	det
8	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act		kindness assist						nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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