Exam question 4 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

In respect of a child who is hurt by a parent or who feels unsafe at home, which course of action is correct?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parent · What happens: hurt, feel, be, respect · To what, where: child, home, respect

This is exam question 4 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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	24 correct	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respect	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hurt	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux:pass
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 child	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 parent	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 parent	det
11	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 feels	cc
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 feels	nsubj
14	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	conj
15	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feels	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feels	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 course	punct
19	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	20 course	det
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 home	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 action	case
22	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 course	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 correct	cop
24	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 correct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive	a parent	a child			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
2	feel	present			home	unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present			respect of a child	correct property	tree rules
4	respect			a child			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 child waits until adulthood before telling anyone about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waits	nsubj
3	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	ADP	_	5 adulthood	case
5	adulthood	adulthood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waits	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 waits	advcl
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 telling	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	the child				until adulthood		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the child not said here		anyone			about child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The child tells a teacher, a school nurse or a children's helpline

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nurse	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nurse	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nurse	compound
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teacher	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 helpline	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 helpline	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 children	case
14	helpline	helpline	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the child		a teacher and a school nurse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 3

The child tells only a younger sibling and no adult whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 sibling	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sibling	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 sibling	amod
7	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 adult	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sibling	conj
11	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 tells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the child	a younger sibling and no adult				whatsoever property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sibling=Recipient

Option 4

The child keeps the matter secret so that the family is not troubled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 troubled	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 troubled	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 troubled	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 troubled	advmod
13	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the child	the matter				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme
2	not is	present	the family					troubled property	tree rules

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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