Exam question 2 · Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill

Identify the principal purpose of a children's hospice.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hospice · What happens: identify, purpose · To what, where: principal purpose

This is exam question 2 of lesson 59 «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 hospice	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hospice	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 children	case
9	hospice	hospice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose of a children's hospice					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	purpose		a children's hospice						nom purpose «cognition 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

The confinement of children who have misbehaved at home or at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 confinement	det
2	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 children	case
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confinement	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 misbehaved	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 misbehaved	aux
7	misbehaved	misbehave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 children	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 misbehaved	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 school	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 home	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misbehave	present · perfect	children			home or school			tree rules
2	confine			children					nom confinement «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The performance of surgical operations exclusively, upon children alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 performance	det
2	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 operations	case
4	surgical	surgical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 operations	amod
5	operations	operation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 performance	nmod
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 performance	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 children	punct
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 performance	conj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 children	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform			surgical operations					nom performance «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

The provision of comfort and care to gravely ill children and their families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 provision	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 comfort	case
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provision	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 care	cc
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comfort	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 children	case
8	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 provision	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 families	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 families	nmod:poss
13	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 children	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide		comfort and care					to gravely ill children and children's families	nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl

Option 4

The accommodation of families who are upon holiday by the sea during the summer months

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 accommodation	det
2	accommodation	accommodation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 families	case
4	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 accommodation	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 holiday	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 holiday	cop
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 holiday	case
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 families	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holiday	nmod
12	during	during	ADP	_	15 months	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 months	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 months	compound
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 accommodation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	families					upon holiday; by the sea	tree rules
2	accommodate			families			during the summer months		nom accommodation «event transitive»: of=patient during=obl

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