Exam question 4 · Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill

Ascertain the meaning of the expression «she does not have long» as employed in respect of a gravely ill grandmother.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: ascertain, not have, employ, mean, respect · To what, where: meaning, respect, expression, gravely ill grandmother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 expression	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 expression	det
6	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meaning	nmod
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 have	advmod
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ascertain	parataxis
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 have	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 employed	mark
15	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 have	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 respect	case
17	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 employed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 grandmother	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 grandmother	det
20	gravely	gravely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandmother	amod
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandmother	amod
22	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 respect	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning of the expression			tree rules
2	not have in a quote	present · do-support	she			long property	tree rules
3	employ	participle	she not said here		respect of a gravely ill grandmother		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean			the expression			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	respect			a gravely ill grandmother			nom respect «cognition transitive»: 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

That her recovery is imminent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 recovery	det
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 recovery	nmod:poss
3	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imminent	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 imminent	cop
5	imminent	imminent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	her recovery					imminent property	tree rules
2	recover		her = she						nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

That she is shortly to depart upon a journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 depart	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 depart	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 depart	cop
4	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	6 depart	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 depart	mark
6	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 journey	det
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depart	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					upon a journey; depart, shortly property	tree rules

Option 3

That she is of short stature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 stature	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stature	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stature	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stature	case
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stature	amod
6	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					of short stature	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That death is likely to occur within a short period

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 death	det
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 occur	mark
6	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 period	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 period	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 period	amod
10	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occur	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that death					likely property	tree rules
2	occur	to-infinitive	that death not said here					within a short period	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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