Exam question 4 · Hiding it from friends: being skint at school

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a pupil whose family owes money for school meals.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, family · What happens: select, establish, concern, owe · To what, where: response, pupil, money

This is exam question 4 of lesson 489 «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 owes	nsubj
14	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pupil	acl:relcl
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 owes	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 meals	case
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meals	compound
18	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 owes	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	owe	present	family	money	for school meals goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent money=Theme for meal=Goal

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

The debt is a family matter, not the pupil's fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 debt	det
2	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 matter	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	compound
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fault	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fault	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pupil	det
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fault	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 pupil	case
12	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the debt	a family matter and the pupil's fault					tree rules
2	fault		the pupil						nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The pupil must repay the debt from his own pocket money at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repay	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 repay	aux
4	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 debt	det
6	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repay	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 money	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 money	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 money	amod
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 money	compound
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repay	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 repay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repay	must	the pupil	the debt		pupil's own pocket money			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent debt=Recipient

Option 3

The debt is evidence of theft on the pupil's part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 debt	det
2	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evidence	cop
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 theft	case
6	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 part	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pupil	det
9	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 pupil	case
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the debt	evidence		the pupil's part		of theft	tree rules

Option 4

The pupil is to be excluded from the dining hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pupil	det
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 excluded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 excluded	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 excluded	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 excluded	aux:pass
6	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hall	compound
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 excluded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclude	present · passive		the pupil		the dining hall			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from hall=Eventuality

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