Exam question 3 · Cold parents: always on the phone

Given that a child is hurt and the parent dismisses the injury, ascertain the most appropriate course.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parent · What happens: give, hurt, dismiss, ascertain · To what, where: child, injury, appropriate course

This is exam question 3 of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 hurt	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux:pass
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Given	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dismisses	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parent	det
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dismisses	nsubj
10	dismisses	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 injury	det
12	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dismisses	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ascertain	punct
14	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dismisses	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 course	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 appropriate	advmod
17	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 course	amod
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ascertain	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	hurt	present · passive		a child	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	dismiss	present	the parent	the injury	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Theme
4	ascertain	infinitive	the parent not said here	the appropriate course	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic

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

To inform a teacher or another adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 inform	mark
2	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inform	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 adult	cc
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	to-infinitive			a teacher or another adult				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 2

To await recovery without remark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 await	mark
2	await	await	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 await	obj
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 remark	case
5	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 await	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	await	to-infinitive		recovery				without remark	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To conceal the injury from all persons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 conceal	mark
2	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 injury	det
4	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conceal	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 persons	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 persons	det
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 conceal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	to-infinitive		the injury				from all persons	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent injury=Patient from person=Beneficiary

Option 4

To reproach the parent at length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 reproach	mark
2	reproach	reproach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 parent	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reproach	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 length	case
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reproach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reproach	to-infinitive		the parent		length			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme

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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