Exam question 3 · Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt

Given that a child in kinship care is asked by peers the reason for the arrangement, ascertain what the child is obliged to disclose.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: peers, you · What happens: give, ask, ascertain, oblige, disclose · To what, where: child

This is exam question 3 of lesson 523 «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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	9 asked	mark
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 asked	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 care	case
6	kinship	kinship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	compound
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	aux:pass
9	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ascertain	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 peers	case
11	peers	peer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asked	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 arrangement	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 arrangement	det
16	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reason	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ascertain	punct
18	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 obliged	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 child	det
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obliged	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 obliged	aux:pass
23	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ascertain	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 disclose	mark
25	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 obliged	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	present · passive	peers	a child in kinship care	tree rules
3	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	oblige	present · passive		the child	tree rules
5	disclose	to-infinitive			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

A written statement signed by the carer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 statement	det
2	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 statement	amod
3	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 statement	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 carer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carer	det
7	carer	carer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sign	participle		a written statement not said here				by the carer	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by carer=Destination

Option 2

Nothing true, but a fabricated account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 account	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 account	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 account	det
6	fabricated	fabricated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 account	amod
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

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

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

Only what the child chooses to share

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chooses	nsubj
5	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 share	mark
7	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chooses	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	the child						tree rules
2	share	to-infinitive	the child not said here						tree rules

Option 4

The full particulars of the family circumstances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 particulars	det
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 particulars	amod
3	particulars	particular	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 circumstances	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 circumstances	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 circumstances	compound
7	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 particulars	nmod

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

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