Exam question 4 · Trusted adults and asking for help

It being given that a trusted adult does not listen, determine the appropriate course of action.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trusted adult · What happens: give, trust, not listen, determine · To what, where: It, appropriate course

This is exam question 4 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 listen	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
6	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adult	amod
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 listen	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 listen	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 listen	advmod
10	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 determine	punct
12	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 listen	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 course	det
14	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 course	amod
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 determine	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 action	case
17	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 course	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	gerund · passive		It	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not listen	present · do-support	a trusted adult		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	determine	infinitive	a trusted adult not said here	the appropriate course of action	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic

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

To ask only other children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 children	advmod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		other children					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To solve the problem alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 solve	mark
2	solve	solve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 solve	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 solve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	to-infinitive		the problem				alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic

Option 3

To keep the problem secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 secret	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 secret	compound
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the problem secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To inform another trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 inform	mark
2	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 adult	det
4	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 adult	amod
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inform	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	to-infinitive			another trusted adult				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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