Exam question 4 · Concerts, orchestras and live gigs

Ascertain the course of action most prudent in respect of the purchase of tickets for a popular concert.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, respect, purchase · To what, where: course, purchase, tickets

This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts 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	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 prudent	advmod
7	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 action	amod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prudent	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 purchase	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 purchase	det
12	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 respect	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 tickets	case
14	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 purchase	nmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 concert	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 concert	det
17	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 concert	amod
18	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tickets	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the course of action	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
2	respect			the purchase of tickets for a popular concert	nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	purchase			tickets for a popular concert	nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient

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 purchase solely from persons reselling at a profit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purchase	det
2	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 persons	nsubj
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	5 persons	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 persons	case
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	reselling	resell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 persons	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 profit	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 profit	det
9	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reselling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resell	gerund	persons not said here			a profit			tree rules

Option 2

The abandonment of any attempt to attend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 abandonment	det
2	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 attempt	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 attempt	det
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 abandonment	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 attend	mark
7	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attempt	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	to-infinitive							vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	abandon			any attempt					nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The purchase from any website whatsoever without enquiry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purchase	det
2	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 website	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 website	det
5	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	nmod
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 purchase	advmod
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 enquiry	case
8	enquiry	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The purchase from the official vendor, with caution towards resold tickets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purchase	det
2	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 vendor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vendor	det
5	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vendor	amod
6	vendor	vendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 caution	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 caution	case
9	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	conj
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 tickets	case
11	resold	resell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tickets	amod
12	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 purchase	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resell	participle							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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