Exam question 1 · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the labels customarily assigned to children within a family?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, assign · To what, where: labels, children

This is exam question 1 of lesson 509 «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 labels	det
10	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
11	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	12 assigned	advmod
12	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 labels	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 children	case
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 assigned	obl
15	within	within	ADP	_	17 family	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 family	det
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the labels		of the following statements; within a family; accurately property	tree rules
3	assign	participle	the labels not said here	children	customarily property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to child=Goal

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

They are wholly harmless in every case

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	4 harmless	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harmless	cop
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	4 harmless	advmod
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 case	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harmless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			every case		harmless, wholly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They tend to persist and may prove unjust

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 tend	nsubj
2	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 persist	mark
4	persist	persist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tend	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 prove	cc
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 prove	aux
7	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tend	conj
8	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prove	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	tend	present	They		tree rules
2	persist	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prove	may	They not said here	unjust property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are assigned only by teachers

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	3 assigned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assigned	aux:pass
3	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 assigned	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assigned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assign	present · passive	teachers	They					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

They are invariably accurate assessments

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	5 assessments	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 assessments	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 assessments	amod
5	assessments	assessment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	accurate assessments					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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