Exam question 3 · Living in a children's home

Given that a child receives a formal notice of a placement review, ascertain the person best placed to explain its contents.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: give, receive, ascertain, place, explain, notice · To what, where: formal notice, person, contents, placement review

This is exam question 3 of lesson 520 «Living in a children's home» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ascertain	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 receives	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receives	nsubj
5	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Given	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 notice	det
7	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 notice	amod
8	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receives	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 review	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 review	det
11	placement	placement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 review	compound
12	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ascertain	punct
14	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ascertain	obj
17	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 placed	advmod
18	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 person	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 explain	mark
20	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 placed	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 contents	nmod:poss
22	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 explain	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	participle	you not said here			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	receive	present	a child	a formal notice of a placement review		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the person		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
4	place	participle		the person not said here	well property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
5	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		child's contents		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Topic
6	notice			a placement review		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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

Nobody, since the notice is confidential

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 confidential	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	5 notice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 notice	det
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 confidential	cop
7	confidential	confidential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody					confidential property	tree rules

Option 2

The other children in the home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 home	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 home	det
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod

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

Option 3

A classmate selected at random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 classmate	det
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 classmate	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 random	case
5	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	participle		a classmate not said here		random			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The child's social worker

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 worker	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worker	amod
5	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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