Exam question 3 · The brother who never does anything wrong: double standard…

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the frequency of lateness of the two siblings in the present month.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, frequency

This is exam question 3 of lesson 165 «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frequency	det
11	frequency	frequency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 lateness	case
13	lateness	lateness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frequency	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 siblings	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 siblings	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 siblings	nummod
17	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lateness	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 month	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 month	det
20	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 month	amod
21	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 siblings	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	the frequency of lateness of the two siblings in the present month		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus frequency=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 · ✓ the right answer

The sister was late once and the brother four times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 once	cop
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brother	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brother	det
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	conj
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sister				time	late, once property	tree rules

Option 2

The sister was late on every occasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 occasion	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 occasion	det
7	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sister			every occasion		late property	tree rules

Option 3

The brother was never late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 late	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 late	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 late	advmod
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the brother					late property	tree rules

Option 4

Both were late an equal number of times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 number	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 number	cop
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 number	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 times	case
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Both	a equal number			time	late property	tree rules

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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