Exam question 2 · Half- and step-siblings
Identify the correct designation of the child of one's parent's spouse, where no parent is held in common.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, hold, designate · To what, where: correct designation, parent, common, child
This is exam question 2 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 designation | det |
| 3 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 designation | amod |
| 4 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 designation | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 spouse | case |
| 9 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spouse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 one | case |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spouse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 parent | case |
| 13 | spouse | spouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 held | advmod |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 parent | det |
| 17 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 held | aux:pass |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 spouse | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 common | case |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 held | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the correct designation of the child of one's spouse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent designation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | present · passive | no parent | common | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in common=Location | ||||
| 3 | designate | the child of one's spouse | nom designation «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A step-sibling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sibling | det |
| 2 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sibling | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 step | punct |
| 4 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cousin | det |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A full sibling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sibling | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sibling | amod |
| 3 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A half-sibling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sibling | det |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 sibling | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 half | punct |
| 4 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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