Exam question 4 · Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a child who hears from a grandparent of danger in a country at war.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, child · What happens: select, establish, concern, hear · To what, where: response, child, grandparent

This is exam question 4 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	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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hears	nsubj
13	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 child	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 grandparent	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 grandparent	det
16	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hears	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 danger	case
18	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grandparent	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 danger	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 war	case
23	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 country	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	a child			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
4	hear	present	a child		a grandparent of danger in a country at war		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from grandparent=Source

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

Disclosure of the child's feelings to a parent is beneficial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beneficial	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 feelings	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feelings	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 child	case
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Disclosure	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 parent	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parent	det
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feelings	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beneficial	cop
11	beneficial	beneficial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Disclosure of the child's feelings to a parent					beneficial property	tree rules
2	disclose			the child's feelings to a parent					nom disclosure «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The child bears responsibility for the grandparent's safety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 responsibility	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bears	compound
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 responsibility	compound
4	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 safety	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grandparent	det
7	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 safety	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 grandparent	case
9	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsibility	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The child ought to conceal all such feelings permanently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conceal	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 conceal	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 conceal	mark
5	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 feelings	det
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feelings	amod
8	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 conceal	obj
9	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	5 conceal	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	ought	the child	all such feelings				permanently property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient

Option 4

The child ought to discontinue all further communication

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discontinue	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 discontinue	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 discontinue	mark
5	discontinue	discontinue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 communication	det
7	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 communication	amod
8	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 discontinue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discontinue	ought	the child	all further communication					vn stop-55.4 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector communication=Eventuality

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/e4/