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Exam question 3 · When work goes wrong

It is given that employees have voted lawfully to strike. Ascertain which statement is correct.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, statement · What happens: give, vote, strike, ascertain, be · To what, where: It, employees

This is exam question 3 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

Sentence 1: It is given that employees have voted lawfully to strike.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 voted	mark
5	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 voted	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 voted	aux
7	voted	vote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
8	lawfully	lawfully	ADV	_	7 voted	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 strike	mark
10	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 voted	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	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	vote	present · perfect · passive		employees				lawfully property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	strike	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain which statement is correct.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 statement	det
3	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 correct	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 correct	cop
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	ccomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	which statement					correct property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The employees are thereby made redundant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employees	det
2	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
4	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	redundant	redundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the employees				redundant, thereby property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

The employees continue to receive their full pay from the employer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employees	det
2	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continue	nsubj
3	continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 receive	mark
5	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 continue	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pay	nmod:poss
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pay	amod
8	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receive	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 employer	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 employer	det
11	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	present	the employees						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	receive	to-infinitive	the employees not said here	employees's full pay		the employer			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pay=Theme from employer=Source
3	pay		employees = employee						nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The employees receive no pay for the duration of the strike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employees	det
2	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 receive	nsubj
3	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pay	det
5	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 receive	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 duration	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duration	det
8	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 receive	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 strike	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strike	det
11	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 duration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present	the employees	no pay				for the duration of the strike	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme

Option 4

The strike is unlawful notwithstanding the vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strike	det
2	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unlawful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unlawful	cop
4	unlawful	unlawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 unlawful	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vote	det
7	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notwithstanding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the strike					unlawful property	tree rules
2	notwithstand	gerund	the strike not said here	the vote					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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