Exam question 4 · Shouty parents and bad days

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning parental distress arising from financial difficulty.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, concerning parental distress · What happens: select, establish, arise · To what, where: response, financial difficulty

This is exam question 4 of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 distress	amod
10	parental	parental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 distress	amod
11	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 facts	nmod
12	arising	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 distress	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 difficulty	case
14	financial	financial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 difficulty	amod
15	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arising	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	arise	gerund	concerning parental distress not said here		financial difficulty		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

It is remedied by the child paying for all fares

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 remedied	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remedied	aux:pass
3	remedied	remedy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remedied	obl
7	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 child	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 fares	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fares	det
10	fares	fare	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remedy	present · passive	the child	It					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	pay	gerund	the child not said here					for all fares	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fare=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a grown-up matter and not the child's fault

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	7 matter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 matter	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 matter	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fault	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fault	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fault	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 child	case
13	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	It	a grown matter and the child's fault	tree rules
3	fault		the child		nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is wholly the fault of the child who lost an item

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 fault	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	5 fault	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fault	det
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 child	acl:relcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 item	det
12	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the fault				of the child; wholly property	tree rules
2	lose	past	the child	a item					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Eventuality

Option 4

It is caused by the child's choice of transport

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 caused	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 choice	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choice	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 transport	case
10	transport	transport	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	the child's choice of transport	It					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient

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