Exam question 3 · When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big…

Identify the reason for which a court may determine that a child shall not meet a parent.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, court, child · What happens: identify, determine, not meet · To what, where: reason, parent

This is exam question 3 of lesson 14 «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 determine	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 determine	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 determine	aux
9	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reason	acl:relcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 meet	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meet	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 meet	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 meet	advmod
15	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 determine	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 parent	det
17	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meet	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	determine	may	a court		for the reason	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not meet	shall	a child	a parent		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-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

The misconduct of the child towards the parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 misconduct	det
2	misconduct	misconduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 misconduct	nmod
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 parent	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parent	det
8	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 misconduct	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misconduct			the child				towards the parent	nom misconduct «act transitive»: of=patient towards=obl

Option 2

The child's failure to request such meetings

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	4 failure	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 request	mark
6	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 failure	acl
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meetings	amod
8	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 request	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	to-infinitive		such meetings					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent meeting=Recipient
2	fail		the child						nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The protection of the child, without any fault of the child's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 protection	det
2	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protection	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fault	punct
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 fault	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fault	det
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protection	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 child	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fault	nmod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 child	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect			the child					nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient
2	fault			the child					nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The expressed preference of the child's classmates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 preference	det
2	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 preference	amod
3	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 classmates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 classmates	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 preference	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	participle							vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	prefer			the child's classmates					nom preference «feeling 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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