Exam question 2 · Looking after yourself and a home

Select the response that most accurately characterises the arrangement whereby a person occupies a dwelling owned by another in exchange for monthly payments.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, most, person · What happens: select, characteris, occupy, own · To what, where: response, arrangement, dwelling, exchange

This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» 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.

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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 characterises	mark
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 characterises	nsubj
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 most	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arrangement	det
9	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
10	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	13 occupies	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 occupies	nsubj
13	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 arrangement	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dwelling	det
15	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 occupies	obj
16	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 dwelling	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 another	case
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 owned	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 exchange	case
20	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 owned	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 payments	case
22	monthly	monthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 payments	amod
23	payments	payment	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 exchange	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	characteris	present	most	the arrangement			tree rules
3	occupy	present	a person	a dwelling		whereby property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dwelling=Experiencer
4	own	participle		a dwelling not said here	exchange for monthly payments	by another	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Purchasing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purchasing	purchase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purchase	gerund							vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

Inheriting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inheriting	inherit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inherit	gerund							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Guest accommodation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guest	gu	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 accommodation	amod
2	accommodation	accommodation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Renting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Renting	rent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rent	gerund							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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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