Exam question 3 · Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning bodily symptoms during bereavement.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, bodily symptoms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 66 «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 symptoms	amod
11	symptoms	symptom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	during	during	ADP	_	13 bereavement	case
13	bereavement	bereavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	bodily symptoms	during bereavement		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus symptom=Experiencer

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

Grief is a purely mental state having no bodily effects

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 state	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 state	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 state	det
4	purely	purely	ADV	_	5 mental	advmod
5	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 state	amod
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 state	acl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 effects	det
9	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 effects	amod
10	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Grief	a mental state					tree rules
2	have	gerund	a mental state not said here	no bodily effects					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 2

Abdominal pain in bereavement is invariably feigned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abdominal	abdominal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pain	compound
2	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feigned	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 bereavement	case
4	bereavement	bereavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pain	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 feigned	aux:pass
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	7 feigned	advmod
7	feigned	feign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	present · passive		Abdominal pain in bereavement				invariably property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grief may occasion headaches, abdominal pain and disturbed sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occasion	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 occasion	aux
3	occasion	occasion	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occasion	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pain	punct
6	abdominal	abdominal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pain	amod
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 headaches	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sleep	cc
9	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sleep	amod
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 headaches	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occasion	may	Grief	headaches and abdominal pain and disturbed sleep					tree rules
2	disturb	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Disturbed sleep in bereavement requires immediate admission to hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sleep	amod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 bereavement	case
4	bereavement	bereavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	nmod
5	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 admission	amod
7	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 hospital	case
9	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 requires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disturb	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	require	present	Disturbed sleep in bereavement	immediate admission				to hospital	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admission=Precondition

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