Exam question 4 · Mum on her own, Dad on his own

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a family consisting of one parent and one child.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 515 «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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 family	det
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	consisting	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 family	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 parent	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 parent	nummod
15	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 consisting	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 child	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 child	nummod
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 parent	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 family		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer
4	consist	gerund	a family not said here		of one parent and one child	tree rules

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

It constitutes a family only temporarily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 temporarily	advmod
6	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	_	2 constitutes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a family				temporarily property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Pivot

Option 2

It does not constitute a family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 constitute	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 constitute	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 constitute	advmod
4	constitute	constitute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 constitute	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not constitute	present · do-support	It	a family					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Pivot

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It constitutes a complete family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 family	det
4	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 family	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a complete family					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Pivot

Option 4

It constitutes a family only with a pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 constitutes	nsubj
2	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 pet	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 pet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pet	det
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 constitutes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	It	a family				with a pet	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Pivot

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