Exam question 2 · Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad

Identify the principal characteristic of a boarding school.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal characteristic

This is exam question 2 of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 characteristic	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 characteristic	amod
4	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 school	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 school	det
7	boarding	boarding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 school	compound
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characteristic	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal characteristic of a boarding school					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=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

Pupils attend it only at weekends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attend	nsubj
2	attend	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 attend	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 weekends	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 weekends	case
6	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	present	Pupils	it			weekend		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Goal

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pupils reside there during the term

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reside	nsubj
2	reside	reside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 reside	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 term	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 term	det
6	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reside	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reside	present	Pupils			there	during the term		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Pupils are taught there entirely online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taught	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taught	aux:pass
3	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 taught	advmod
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 taught	advmod
6	online	online	ADV	_	3 taught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · passive		Pupils		there		entirely, online property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

Pupils are admitted only after the age of sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 admitted	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 admitted	aux:pass
3	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 age	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 age	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 age	det
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 admitted	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sixteen	case
9	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 age	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present · passive		Pupils			after the age of sixteen		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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