Exam question 1 · Half- and step-siblings

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship of half-siblings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: relationship

This is exam question 1 of lesson 505 «Half- and step-siblings» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 relationship	det
10	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 siblings	case
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 siblings	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 half	punct
14	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 relationship	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the relationship of half siblings				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

They share only a surname

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 surname	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 surname	det
5	surname	surname	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	a surname					tree rules

Option 2

They share no parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 parent	det
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	no parent					tree rules

Option 3

They share both parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 parents	det
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	both parents					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They share precisely one parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 parent	nummod
5	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	one parent					tree rules

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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