Exam question 3 · When the police come

State the minimum age at which a child may be charged with a criminal offence in England and Wales.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: charge · To what, where: child, minimum age

This is exam question 3 of lesson 384 «When the police come» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 age	det
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 charged	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charged	nsubj:pass
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 charged	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 charged	aux:pass
11	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 age	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 offence	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 offence	det
14	criminal	criminal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 offence	amod
15	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charged	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 England	case
17	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 offence	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Wales	cc
19	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 England	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	may · passive		a child			at the minimum age	with a criminal offence in England and Wales	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with offence=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Eighteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Sixteen years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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