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# Exam question 3 · When Grandma and Grandad need more help

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It is given that a relative "attends daily to the medication and meals" of an elderly parent without remuneration. Determine the most accurate description of that relative.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** relative, you · **What happens:** give, attend, determine, describe · **To what, where:** It, accurate description, relative

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 23 «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a relative "attends daily to the medication and meals" of an elderly parent without remuneration.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help:e3:1
# text = It is given that a relative "attends daily to the medication and meals" of an elderly parent without remuneration.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	attends	attend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	medication	medication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	remuneration	remuneration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** *in a quote* | present | a relative |  |  |  |  | to the medication and meals of a elderly parent without remuneration; daily *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to medication=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the most accurate description of that relative.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help:e3:2
# text = Determine the most accurate description of that relative.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the accurate description of that relative |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Topic |
| 2 | **describe** |  |  | that relative |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An unpaid carer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help:e3:o1:1
# text = An unpaid carer
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	carer	carer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A medical practitioner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help:e3:o2:1
# text = A medical practitioner
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	practitioner	practitioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A care home manager

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help:e3:o3:1
# text = A care home manager
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	manager	manager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A hired domestic cleaner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help:e3:o4:1
# text = A hired domestic cleaner
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	domestic	domestic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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**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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