Exam question 3 · Foster care

Identify the meaning of the term «birth parent» as established in the lesson.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, establish, mean · To what, where: meaning, lesson, term

This is exam question 3 of lesson 521 «Foster care» 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	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 term	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 term	det
6	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 parent	punct
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parent	compound
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 term	appos
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 parent	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 established	mark
12	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 lesson	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lesson	det
15	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 established	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the term		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
2	establish	participle	you not said here		the lesson	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	mean			the term		nom meaning «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

The midwife who attended the child's birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 midwife	det
2	midwife	midwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attended	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 attended	nsubj
4	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birth	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attended	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	past	the midwife	the child's birth					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme birth=Goal

Option 2

Any foster carer of a long-term placement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 carer	det
2	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carer	compound
3	carer	carer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 placement	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 placement	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 term	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 long	punct
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placement	compound
9	placement	placement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carer	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The parent to whom the child was born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parent	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 whom	case
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 parent	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 born	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux:pass
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 whom	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the child					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The parent present on the child's birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 present	det
2	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 present	compound
3	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 birthday	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birthday	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 present	nmod

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

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