Exam question 4 · Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and…

Ascertain the principal purpose for which age ratings are assigned to films.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, assign · To what, where: principal purpose, age ratings, films

This is exam question 4 of lesson 57 «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 assigned	obl
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ratings	compound
8	ratings	rating	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 assigned	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 assigned	aux:pass
10	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purpose	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 films	case
12	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 assigned	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
2	assign	present · passive		age ratings				to films goal; for the principal purpose	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to film=Goal

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

To determine the price to be charged for admission

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 determine	mark
2	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determine	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 charged	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 charged	aux:pass
7	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 price	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 admission	case
9	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	to-infinitive		the price					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic
2	charge	to-infinitive · passive		the price not said here				for admission	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To rank films in order of their artistic merit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rank	mark
2	rank	rank	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rank	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rank	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 merit	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 merit	nmod:poss
8	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 merit	amod
9	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 order	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rank	to-infinitive		films		order of films's artistic merit			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent film=Theme
2	order			films's artistic merit					nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To assist in selecting material suitable for a given age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 assist	mark
2	assist	assist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	SCONJ	_	4 selecting	mark
4	selecting	select	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 assist	advcl
5	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selecting	obj
6	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 selecting	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 age	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 age	det
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 age	amod
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suitable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assist	to-infinitive			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	select	gerund	material	suitable property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Theme
3	give	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

To prevent adults from viewing films for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevent	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 viewing	mark
5	viewing	view	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 viewing	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 viewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		adults					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer adult=Theme
2	view	gerund		films				for children	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus

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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