Exam question 2 · Sleepovers and inside jokes

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises homesickness experienced by a child at a sleepover?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, experience · To what, where: homesickness

This is exam question 2 of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
10	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 homesickness	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 child	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 experienced	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 sleepover	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sleepover	det
16	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 child	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	homesickness	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	experience	participle	homesickness not said here	by a child at a sleepover	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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 right answer

It is a normal experience and an early return home is acceptable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 experience	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 experience	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 experience	det
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 experience	amod
5	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 acceptable	cc
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 home	det
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 home	compound
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 acceptable	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 acceptable	cop
12	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 experience	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a normal experience					tree rules
2	is	present	a early return home					acceptable property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It obliges the child to remain until morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 obliges	nsubj
2	obliges	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obliges	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remain	mark
6	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 obliges	ccomp
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 morning	case
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present	It	the child					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Patient clause=Result
2	remain	to-infinitive					morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It indicates immaturity requiring ridicule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 indicates	nsubj
2	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	immaturity	immaturity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 requiring	compound
4	requiring	requiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridicule	compound
5	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 indicates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	It	requiring ridicule					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ridicule=Topic

Option 4

It is experienced exclusively by infants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 experienced	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 experienced	aux:pass
3	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	3 experienced	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 infants	case
6	infants	infant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 experienced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	experience	present · passive	infants	It				exclusively property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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