Exam question 4 · Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent

Determine the designation customarily given to a child who assists in the care of an ill or disabled member of the family.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child, ill member · What happens: determine, give, assist, care · To what, where: designation, child, care

This is exam question 4 of lesson 33 «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 designation	det
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 given	advmod
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 designation	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 assists	nsubj
10	assists	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 child	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 care	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 care	det
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assists	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 member	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 member	det
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 member	amod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 disabled	cc
18	disabled	disabled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ill	conj
19	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 care	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 family	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 family	det
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 member	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the designation				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent designation=Topic
2	give	participle		the designation not said here	a child		customarily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient
3	assist	present	a child			the care of a ill member of the family		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	care		a ill member of the family					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

A junior nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
2	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nurse	amod
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A young carer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carer	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carer	amod
3	carer	carer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A ward assistant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 assistant	det
2	ward	ward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assistant	compound
3	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A palliative specialist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 specialist	det
2	palliative	palliative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 specialist	amod
3	specialist	specialist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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