Exam question 3 · A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the feelings of a healthy child whose sibling is gravely ill.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, sibling · What happens: select, establish, concern, be · To what, where: response, feelings

This is exam question 3 of lesson 506 «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feelings	det
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 child	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feelings	nmod
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 sibling	nmod:poss
17	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ill	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ill	cop
19	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ill	amod
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the feelings of a healthy child		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer
4	is	present	sibling		ill 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

Such a child experiences no feelings of any kind whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 child	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 experiences	nsubj
4	experiences	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 feelings	det
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 experiences	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feelings	nmod
10	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	4 experiences	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	experience	present	such child	no feelings of any kind				whatsoever property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Jealousy is common and does not render the child bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 common	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 common	cop
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 render	cc
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 render	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 render	advmod
7	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 common	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 render	obj
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 render	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jealousy					common property	tree rules
2	not render	present · do-support	Jealousy not said here	the child				bad property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 3

Jealousy demonstrates an absence of love for the sibling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demonstrates	nsubj
2	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 absence	det
4	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demonstrates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 absence	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 sibling	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sibling	det
9	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demonstrates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	Jealousy	a absence of love				for the sibling	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot absence=Topic
2	absent			love					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Such feelings must be concealed from every adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feelings	amod
2	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 concealed	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 concealed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 concealed	aux:pass
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 adult	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	must · passive		Such feelings				from every adult	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from adult=Beneficiary

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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