Exam question 3 · Warm parents and strict parents

Identify the principal difficulty arising from a household with too few rules.

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 difficulty	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 difficulty	amod
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	arising	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 difficulty	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 household	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 household	det
8	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arising	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 rules	case
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 few	advmod
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rules	amod
12	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arising	obl
13	.	.	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 difficulty					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme
2	arise	gerund	the principal difficulty not said here			a household		with few rules	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

An excess of strict instruction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 excess	det
2	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 instruction	case
4	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 instruction	amod
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 excess	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Insufficient sleep and fatigue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleep	amod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fatigue	cc
4	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	conj

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

Option 3

A surplus of homework assigned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 surplus	det
2	surplus	surplus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 homework	case
4	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 surplus	nmod
5	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 surplus	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assign	participle		a surplus of homework not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Excessive sleep and lethargy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleep	amod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lethargy	cc
4	lethargy	lethargy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	conj

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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