Exam question 4 · Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»

Ascertain the appropriate interval between the death of a pet and the acquisition of another.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pet · What happens: ascertain, die · To what, where: appropriate interval

This is exam question 4 of lesson 57 «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 interval	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 interval	amod
4	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 death	det
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interval	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pet	det
10	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 death	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 acquisition	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 acquisition	det
13	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pet	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 another	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 acquisition	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate interval				between the death of a pet and the acquisition of another	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	die		a pet and the acquisition of another						nom death «event 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

Precisely one calendar year in every instance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Precisely	precisely	ADV	_	4 year	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 year	compound
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 instance	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 instance	det
7	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 year	nmod

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

Option 2

Not less than nine days, as is required by long-standing custom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 less	advmod
2	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 required	nsubj:pass
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 less	fixed
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 less	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 required	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 required	mark
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 required	aux:pass
9	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	14 custom	case
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 standing	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
13	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 custom	compound
14	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 required	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive	standing custom	less					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Precondition

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No fixed interval exists; it differs from person to person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 interval	det
2	fixed	fixed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 interval	amod
3	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exists	nsubj
4	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 differs	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 differs	nsubj
7	differs	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exists	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 person	case
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 differs	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 person	case
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 differs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	no fixed interval						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	differ	present	interval					from person; to person	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from person=Co-Theme

Option 4

It is required to occur on the following day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 occur	mark
5	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 required	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 occur	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	require	present · passive	It		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	occur	to-infinitive		day	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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