Exam question 3 · Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault

Identify the appropriate conduct of a child who experiences fear at home owing to a parent's excessive consumption of alcohol.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child, home, parent · What happens: identify, experience, owe, conduct, consume · To what, where: appropriate conduct, fear, home, excessive consumption, child, alcohol

This is exam question 3 of lesson 12 «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 conduct	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conduct	amod
4	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conduct	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 experiences	nsubj
9	experiences	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 child	acl:relcl
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 experiences	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 experiences	obl
13	owing	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 home	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 consumption	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 parent	det
16	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 consumption	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 parent	case
18	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 consumption	amod
19	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 owing	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 alcohol	case
21	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 consumption	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate conduct of a child			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme
2	experience	present	a child	fear	home		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus
3	owe	gerund	home not said here			to a parent's excessive consumption of alcohol goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to consumption=Goal
4	conduct			a child			nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient
5	consume		a parent	alcohol			nom consumption «act transitive»: poss=agent 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

Removal of the alcohol from the household without disclosure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 alcohol	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 alcohol	det
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Removal	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 household	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 household	det
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alcohol	nmod
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 disclosure	case
9	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 household	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			the alcohol from the household without disclosure					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Disclosure to a trusted adult such as a teacher or a children's helpline

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 adult	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adult	det
4	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 adult	amod
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Disclosure	nmod
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 teacher	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adult	nmod
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	9 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Concealment of the matter in order to protect the parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 matter	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 matter	det
4	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Concealment	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Concealment	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parent	det
10	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive			the parent				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Beneficiary
2	conceal			the matter in order					nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Endurance of the situation pending its spontaneous resolution

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Endurance	endurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 situation	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 situation	det
4	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Endurance	nmod
5	pending	pend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Endurance	acl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 resolution	nmod:poss
7	spontaneous	spontaneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 resolution	amod
8	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pend	gerund	Endurance of the situation not said here	situation's spontaneous resolution					tree rules
2	resolve		situation						nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/reflection/12-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault/e3/