Exam question 4 · Canada: a short story

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the residential schools of Canada.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, residential schools

This is exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Canada: a short story» of the history 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 schools	det
11	residential	residential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 schools	amod
12	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Canada	case
14	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 schools	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the residential schools of Canada		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus school=Experiencer

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

Indigenous children were removed from their families and forbidden their own languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 removed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 removed	aux:pass
4	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 families	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 families	nmod:poss
7	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 removed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forbidden	cc
9	forbidden	forbidden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 removed	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 languages	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 languages	amod
12	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forbidden	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past · passive		Indigenous children		children's families			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from family=Source
2	forbidden	present		children's own languages					tree rules

Option 2

They were attended solely by adults

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 attended	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 attended	aux:pass
3	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 attended	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 attended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	past · passive	adults	They				solely property	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal

Option 3

They taught exclusively in Indigenous languages

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 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 taught	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 languages	case
5	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 languages	amod
6	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	They			Indigenous languages		exclusively property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were established at the request of Indigenous families who wished their children to learn English

The tree, 16 words

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 established	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 established	aux:pass
3	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 request	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 request	det
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 established	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 families	case
8	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 families	amod
9	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 request	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wished	nsubj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 families	acl:relcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wished	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 learn	mark
15	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	advcl
16	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	establish	past · passive		They	the request of Indigenous families	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	wish	past	Indigenous families	families's children		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot child=Theme
3	learn	to-infinitive	Indigenous families not said here	English		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic
4	request			Indigenous families		nom request «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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