Exam question 4 · Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a child who addresses a grandparent as «Mammy» in error.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, child · What happens: select, establish, concern, address · To what, where: response, child, grandparent, error

This is exam question 4 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	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 addresses	nsubj
13	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 child	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 grandparent	det
15	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 addresses	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 Mammy	case
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 Mammy	punct
18	Mammy	Mammy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 addresses	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 Mammy	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 error	case
21	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 addresses	obl
22	.	.	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	address	present	a child	a grandparent	error	as Mammy	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Destination

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 error constitutes grave disrespect towards the mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 error	det
2	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 constitutes	nsubj
3	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 disrespect	amod
5	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 constitutes	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 constitutes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constitute	present	the error	grave disrespect				towards the mother	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme disrespect=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The error is understandable and attributes blame to no one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 error	det
2	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understandable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understandable	cop
4	understandable	understandable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 attributes	cc
6	attributes	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understandable	conj
7	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attributes	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attributes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the error					understandable property	tree rules
2	attribute	present	the error not said here	blame	no one				tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The error obliges the mother to discontinue her visits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 error	det
2	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obliges	nsubj
3	obliges	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obliges	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 discontinue	mark
7	discontinue	discontinue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliges	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 visits	nmod:poss
9	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 discontinue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	oblige	present	the error	the mother	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
2	discontinue	to-infinitive	the error not said here	error's visits	vn stop-55.4 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector visit=Eventuality
3	visit		error		nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The error requires the grandparent to adopt a different name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 error	det
2	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 requires	nsubj
3	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grandparent	det
5	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 requires	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 adopt	mark
7	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 requires	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 name	det
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 name	amod
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adopt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	the error	the grandparent					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grandparent=Precondition
2	adopt	to-infinitive	the error not said here	a different name					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme

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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