Exam question 3 · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»

Identify the course of action recommended where a child in charge of a sibling encounters an injury more serious than a minor cut.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, recommend, encounter, charge · To what, where: course, action, injury, sibling

This is exam question 3 of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
6	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 action	acl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 encounters	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 encounters	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 charge	case
11	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 child	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sibling	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sibling	det
14	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 charge	nmod
15	encounters	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 recommended	advcl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 injury	det
17	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 encounters	obj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 serious	advmod
19	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 encounters	ccomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 cut	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cut	det
22	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cut	amod
23	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 serious	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the course of action	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme
2	recommend	participle		action not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	encounter	present	a child in charge of a sibling	a injury	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer injury=Stimulus
4	charge			a sibling	nom charge «act transitive»: of=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

Concealment of the injury from the parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 injury	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 injury	det
4	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Concealment	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 parents	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parents	det
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 injury	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal			the injury from the parents					nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Treatment of the injury by the child unaided

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 injury	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 injury	det
4	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Treatment	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Treatment	nmod
8	unaided	unaided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Treatment	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat		the child	the injury					nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent

Option 3

Waiting to ascertain whether it improves by evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 improves	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 ascertain	mark
3	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Waiting	xcomp
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ascertain	obl
6	improves	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 evening	case
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 improves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund				tree rules
2	ascertain	to-infinitive			whether it	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	improve	present	Waiting	evening		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The immediate summoning of an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 summoning	det
2	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summoning	amod
3	summoning	summoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 adult	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 summoning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon			a adult					nom summoning «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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