Exam question 2 · The only child: a quiet house

Identify the conditions under which a brief period alone at home may be appropriate for a child aged nine or ten.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, brief period, child · What happens: identify, be, age · To what, where: conditions, nine

This is exam question 2 of lesson 498 «The only child: a quiet house» 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	3 conditions	det
3	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 appropriate	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 period	det
7	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 period	amod
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appropriate	nsubj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 period	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 period	nmod
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 appropriate	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 appropriate	cop
14	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 conditions	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 child	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appropriate	obl
18	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 child	acl
19	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 aged	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 ten	cc
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 nine	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the conditions			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	is	may	a brief period at home		the conditions	for a child; appropriate property	tree rules
3	age	participle	a child not said here	nine			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nine=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Brevity, a nearby adult and a clear plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brevity	brevity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 adult	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
4	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 adult	amod
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brevity	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 plan	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plan	det
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brevity	conj

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

Option 2

The absence of any rules or telephone numbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absence	det
2	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rules	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 rules	det
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 absence	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 numbers	cc
7	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 numbers	compound
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rules	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent			any rules or telephone numbers					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

An open door so that any caller may enter freely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enter	nsubj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 caller	case
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 caller	det
7	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	nmod
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 enter	aux
9	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	freely	freely	ADV	_	9 enter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	may	a open door so any caller					freely property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A period extending until late in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 period	det
2	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	extending	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 period	acl
4	until	until	ADP	_	5 late	case
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 extending	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 extending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extend	gerund	a period not said here				evening		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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