Exam question 2 · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

Identify the principal reason, as established in the lesson, for which children enter care.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, children · What happens: identify, establish, enter · To what, where: principal reason, lesson, care

This is exam question 2 of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 established	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 established	mark
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lesson	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lesson	det
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 established	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enter	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 enter	obl
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 enter	nsubj
15	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enter	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	establish	participle			the lesson	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	enter	present	children	care		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme care=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 · ← Mova's choice

They have themselves requested to leave home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 have	obj
4	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 requested	advcl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	themselves = they		tree rules
2	request	participle	themselves = they not said here			vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	leave	to-infinitive	themselves = they not said here		home property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their parents are unable to cope or to keep them safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unable	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unable	cop
4	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cope	mark
6	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unable	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cope	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Their parents		unable property	tree rules
2	cope	to-infinitive	Their parents not said here			vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	to-infinitive	Their parents not said here	parents = parent	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Their parents have expressly declined to want them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 declined	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 declined	aux
4	expressly	expressly	ADV	_	5 declined	advmod
5	declined	decline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 want	mark
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 declined	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	present · perfect · passive		Their parents				expressly property	tree rules
2	not want	to-infinitive		parents = parent					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 4

They have conducted themselves poorly at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 conducted	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conducted	aux
3	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 conducted	obj
5	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	3 conducted	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	present · perfect	They	themselves = they		school		poorly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at school=Destination

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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