Exam question 3 · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met

Ascertain the most appropriate means by which a child may acquire knowledge of grandparents deceased before the child's birth.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, appropriate, child · What happens: ascertain, mean, acquire, decease · To what, where: knowledge, grandparents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 513 «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 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 Ascertain	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 acquire	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acquire	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 acquire	aux
11	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acquire	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 grandparents	case
14	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knowledge	nmod
15	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 grandparents	acl
16	before	before	ADP	_	20 birth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 birth	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 child	case
20	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deceased	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	the appropriate			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	acquire	may	a child	knowledge of grandparents		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme
4	decease	participle		grandparents not said here	before the child's birth	vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Photographs and family recollections

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Photographs	photograph	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 recollections	cc
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recollections	compound
4	recollections	recollection	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Photographs	conj

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

Option 2

No means exist whereby such knowledge may be acquired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
4	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	9 acquired	advmod
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knowledge	amod
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 acquired	nsubj:pass
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 acquired	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 acquired	aux:pass
9	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 exist	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	No			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	exist	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	acquire	may · passive		such knowledge	whereby property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Exclusively the daily attendance of the place of burial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	4 attendance	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 attendance	det
3	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 attendance	amod
4	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attendance	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 burial	case
9	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend			the place of burial					nom attendance «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The invention of imaginary biographies by the child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 invention	det
2	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 biographies	case
4	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 biographies	amod
5	biographies	biography	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invention	nmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 biographies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent			imaginary biographies by the child					nom invention «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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