Exam question 3 · A new baby

Identify the course recommended where an older sibling is uninformed as to the condition of a hospitalised infant.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, recommend, uninform, hospitalis, condition · To what, where: course, older sibling, hospitalised infant

This is exam question 3 of lesson 504 «A new baby» 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	recommended	recommend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 course	acl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 uninformed	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sibling	det
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sibling	amod
8	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uninformed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 uninformed	aux:pass
10	uninformed	uninform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 recommended	advcl
11	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 condition	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 condition	det
14	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uninformed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 infant	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 infant	det
17	hospitalised	hospitalis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 infant	amod
18	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 condition	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the course		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme
2	recommend	participle		the course not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	uninform	present · passive		a older sibling	as the condition of a hospitalised infant	tree rules
4	hospitalis	participle				tree rules
5	condition			a hospitalised infant		nom condition «state 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

The child should consult strangers online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consult	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 consult	aux
4	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consult	obj
6	online	online	ADV	_	4 consult	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consult	should	the child	strangers				online property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme

Option 2

The child should remain silent indefinitely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remain	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remain	aux
4	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remain	xcomp
6	indefinitely	indefinitely	ADV	_	4 remain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	should	the child					indefinitely, silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The child should enquire of the parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enquire	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 enquire	aux
4	enquire	enquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 parents	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parents	det
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 enquire	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enquire speech: other	should	the child					of the parents	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of parent=Recipient

Option 4

The child should assume the gravest outcome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assume	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 assume	aux
4	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 outcome	det
6	gravest	grave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 outcome	amod
7	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assume	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assume	should	the child	the gravest outcome					vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Theme

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