Exam question 3 · Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories

Whereas a person engaged to promote a product receives payment for doing so, determine the obligation imposed upon that person by the advertising rules.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person, payment · What happens: engage, promote, receive, do, determine, impose · To what, where: person, product, payment, obligation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 48 «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	3 person	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 receives	nsubj
4	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 person	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 promote	mark
6	promote	promote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 engaged	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 product	det
8	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promote	obj
9	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 receives	obj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 doing	mark
12	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 payment	acl
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 doing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 receives	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 obligation	det
17	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
18	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 obligation	acl
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 person	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 person	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 imposed	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 rules	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rules	det
24	advertising	advertising	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rules	compound
25	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 imposed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 receives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	engage	participle		a person not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	promote	to-infinitive		a product		vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Theme
3	receive	present	a person	payment		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=Theme
4	do	gerund	payment not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	determine	infinitive		the obligation		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obligation=Topic
6	impose	participle		the obligation not said here	upon that person; by the advertising rules	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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 refrain from using the product personally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 refrain	mark
2	refrain	refrain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 using	mark
4	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 refrain	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 product	det
6	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 using	obj
7	personally	personally	ADV	_	4 using	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refrain	to-infinitive							vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	gerund		the product				personally property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To disclose that the communication is an advertisement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 disclose	mark
2	disclose	disclose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 advertisement	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 communication	det
5	communication	communication	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 advertisement	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 advertisement	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 advertisement	det
8	advertisement	advertisement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disclose	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disclose	to-infinitive							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	present	the communication	a advertisement					tree rules

Option 3

To promote solely products manufactured abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 promote	mark
2	promote	promote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	2 promote	advmod
4	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 promote	obj
5	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 products	acl
6	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 promote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promote	to-infinitive		products				abroad, solely property	vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Theme
2	manufacture	participle		products not said here					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To obtain the written consent of every follower in advance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consent	det
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 consent	amod
5	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 follower	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 follower	det
8	follower	follower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consent	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 advance	case
10	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive	the written consent of every follower	advance	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset consent=Theme
2	write	participle			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	consent		every follower		nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient

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