Exam question 4 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

In respect of a family in which a parent works far away or is deployed in the military, which measures assist the child?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: parent, measures · What happens: work, deploy, assist, respect · To what, where: military, family

This is exam question 4 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 family	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 works	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parent	det
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 works	nsubj
10	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 family	acl:relcl
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 works	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 deployed	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deployed	aux:pass
15	deployed	deploy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 works	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 military	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 military	det
18	military	military	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deployed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 assist	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 assist	obj
21	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 assist	nsubj
22	assist	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 military	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 assist	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 respect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	present	a parent			in a family; away property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme
2	deploy	present · passive	a parent not said here		the military		tree rules
3	assist	present	measures	the military			tree rules
4	respect			a family			nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Letters, video calls and a calendar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 calls	punct
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	compound
4	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Letters	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 calendar	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 calendar	det
7	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Letters	conj

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

Option 2

Refusing to speak during video calls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 speak	mark
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusing	xcomp
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 calls	case
5	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calls	compound
6	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	gerund							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive					during video calls		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Avoiding any mention of the parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 mention	det
3	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Avoiding	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 parent	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mention	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	gerund		any mention of the parent					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mention=Location
2	mention			the parent					nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Waiting in silence for the return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 silence	case
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 return	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 return	det
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund				silence		for the return	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location

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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