Exam question 3 · Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult
State the term by which a child who habitually cooks for siblings and attends to an unwell parent is designated.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, term · What happens: cook, attend, designate · To what, where: child
This is exam question 3 of lesson 497 «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | appos |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 designated | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 designated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cooks | nsubj |
| 9 | habitually | habitually | ADV | _ | 10 cooks | advmod |
| 10 | cooks | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 child | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 siblings | case |
| 12 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cooks | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 attends | cc |
| 14 | attends | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cooks | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 parent | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parent | det |
| 17 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parent | amod |
| 18 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attends | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 designated | aux:pass |
| 20 | designated | designate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 term | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present | a child | for siblings; habitually property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sibling=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | attend | present | a child not said here | to a unwell parent | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to parent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | designate | present · passive | the term | a child | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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
A domestic servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A young carer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carer | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carer | amod |
| 3 | carer | carer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A guardian ad litem appointed by the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 litem | det |
| 2 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 litem | amod |
| 3 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 litem | compound |
| 4 | litem | litem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 litem | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | a guardian ad litem not said here | by the court | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
An apprentice of the household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 apprentice | det |
| 2 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 household | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 household | det |
| 5 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 apprentice | nmod |
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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