Exam question 1 · Trusted adults and asking for help

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a trusted adult?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, trust · To what, where: trusted adult

This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 adult	amod
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a trusted adult	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Any adult with a car who offers a lift home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 car	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adult	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 offers	nsubj
7	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 adult	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 home	det
9	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 home	compound
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	any adult with a car	a lift home					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 2

Any adult who offers sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 offers	nsubj
4	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 adult	acl:relcl
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	any adult	sweets					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A grown-up who keeps a child safe and listens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grown	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 keeps	advcl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeps	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listens	cc
11	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keeps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	a child	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	listen	present			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Any adult met online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	online	online	ADV	_	3 met	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	any adult					online property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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