Exam question 2 · When work goes wrong

Identify the principal purpose of membership of a trade union.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, membership · What happens: identify, purpose · To what, where: principal purpose

This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «When work goes wrong» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 membership	case
6	membership	membership	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 union	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 union	det
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 union	compound
10	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 membership	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose of membership of a trade union					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	purpose		membership of a trade union						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

To provide members with wages in place of those paid by their employer each month

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 provide	mark
2	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 provide	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 wages	case
5	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 provide	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 those	case
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 place	nmod
10	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 those	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 employer	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 employer	nmod:poss
13	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obl:agent
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 month	det
15	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	to-infinitive		members		place of those		with wages	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent member=Recipient with wage=Theme
2	pay	participle					month		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To enable employers to recruit staff at reduced cost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 enable	mark
2	enable	enable	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	employers	employer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enable	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 recruit	mark
5	recruit	recruit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 enable	xcomp
6	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recruit	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cost	case
8	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cost	amod
9	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recruit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	enable	to-infinitive		employers		tree rules
2	recruit	to-infinitive	employers not said here	staff	reduced cost	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme
3	reduce	participle				vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To enable workers to negotiate collectively with employers on pay and conditions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 enable	mark
2	enable	enable	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enable	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 negotiate	mark
5	negotiate	negotiate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 enable	xcomp
6	collectively	collectively	ADV	_	5 negotiate	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 employers	case
8	employers	employer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 negotiate	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 pay	case
10	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 negotiate	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 conditions	cc
12	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enable	to-infinitive		workers					tree rules
2	negotiate	to-infinitive	workers not said here					with employers; on pay and conditions; collectively property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with employer=Co-Agent on pay=Topic

Option 4

To exempt members from the obligation to attend work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 members	mark
2	exempt	exempt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 members	amod
3	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 obligation	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 obligation	det
6	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 members	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 attend	mark
8	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 members	acl
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 attend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	to-infinitive		work					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Goal

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