Exam question 2 · Where money comes from

Identify the principal source from which state benefits are funded.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, fund · To what, where: principal source, state benefits

This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «Where money comes from» 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 source	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 source	amod
4	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 funded	obl
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 benefits	compound
8	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 funded	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 funded	aux:pass
10	funded	fund	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 source	acl:relcl
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 source					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent source=Theme
2	fund	present · passive		state benefits		the principal source			tree rules

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

The profits of commercial banks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 profits	det
2	profits	profit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 banks	case
4	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 banks	amod
5	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 profits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	profit		commercial banks						nom profit «possession intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Voluntary donations from wealthy individuals and charitable bodies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voluntary	voluntary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 donations	amod
2	donations	donation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 individuals	case
4	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 individuals	amod
5	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 donations	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bodies	cc
7	charitable	charitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bodies	amod
8	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 donations	conj

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

Option 3

The pocket money of children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 money	det
2	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 money	compound
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 money	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

General taxation contributed by the population at large

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 taxation	amod
2	taxation	taxation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	contributed	contribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 taxation	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 population	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 population	det
6	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contributed	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 large	case
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 contributed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contribute	participle		General taxation not said here		large		by the population	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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