Exam question 2 · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

Identify the most appropriate means by which a child may raise a perceived parental preference for a sibling.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, appropriate, child · What happens: identify, mean, raise, perceive · To what, where: perceived parental preference · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 appropriate	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 raise	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raise	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 raise	aux
11	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 preference	det
13	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 preference	amod
14	parental	parental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 preference	amod
15	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raise	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 sibling	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sibling	det
18	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 preference	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the appropriate			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	raise	may	a child	a perceived parental preference	for a sibling	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent preference=Theme by which=Destination
4	perceive	participle				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Damage to the property of the favoured sibling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 property	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 property	det
4	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Damage	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sibling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sibling	det
7	favoured	favour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sibling	amod
8	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 property	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	favour	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A calm statement of the child's feelings to the parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statement	det
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 statement	amod
3	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 feelings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feelings	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 statement	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 parent	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parent	det
11	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feelings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state			the child's feelings to the parent					nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A protracted period of sulking without explanation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 period	det
2	protracted	protract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 period	amod
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 sulking	mark
5	sulking	sulk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 period	acl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 explanation	case
7	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protract	participle							vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	sulk	gerund	a protracted period not said here					without explanation	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Complaint made exclusively to neighbours and friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 made	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 neighbours	case
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 friends	cc
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 neighbours	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Complaint					to neighbours and friends; exclusively property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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