Exam question 4 · A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left…

Ascertain the correct attribution of responsibility where an adult sibling departs the family home following a quarrel with a parent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, adult sibling · What happens: ascertain, depart, follow, attribute · To what, where: correct attribution, family, quarrel, responsibility

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 attribution	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 attribution	amod
4	attribution	attribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 responsibility	case
6	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attribution	nmod
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 departs	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sibling	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sibling	compound
10	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 departs	nsubj
11	departs	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 responsibility	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 departs	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	15 following	advmod
15	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 departs	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 quarrel	det
17	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 following	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 parent	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 parent	det
20	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quarrel	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the correct attribution of responsibility		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribution=Topic
2	depart	present	a adult sibling	the family		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Initial_Location
3	follow	gerund	a adult sibling not said here	a quarrel	with a parent; home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Theme
4	attribute			responsibility		nom attribution «cognition 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

Responsibility rests with whichever child was present at the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rests	nsubj
2	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 present	mark
4	whichever	whichever	DET	PronType=Rel	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 present	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 present	cop
7	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rests	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 present	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present	Responsibility						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	whichever child				time	present property	tree rules

Option 2

The younger child ought to have prevented the quarrel occurring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevented	nsubj:pass
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 prevented	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	7 prevented	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 prevented	aux
7	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 quarrel	det
9	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevented	obj
10	occurring	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 quarrel	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	ought · perfect · passive		the younger child					tree rules
2	occur	gerund	the quarrel not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The younger child bears full responsibility for the departure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bears	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bears	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bears	compound
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 responsibility	nsubj
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 responsibility	amod
6	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 departure	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 departure	det
9	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 responsibility	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The younger child bears none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 none	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bears	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bears	compound
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 none	compound
5	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	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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