Exam question 2 · Growing up, honesty and manners

Whereas a sum of money is found upon the premises of a school, determine the appropriate course of action.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: find, determine, sum, premise · To what, where: sum, appropriate course, money, school

This is exam question 2 of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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	_	7 found	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sum	det
3	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sum	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 determine	advcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 premises	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 premises	det
10	premises	premise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 school	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 school	det
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 premises	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 course	det
17	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 course	amod
18	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 action	case
20	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 course	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		a sum of money	upon the premises of a school	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	determine	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate course of action		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic
3	sum			money		nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient
4	premise			a school		nom premise «communication 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

Retain it unless the owner comes forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Retain	obj
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 comes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 owner	det
5	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Retain	advcl
7	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	come forward a condition, not said to happen	present	the owner					forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Divide it equally among those present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Divide	obj
3	equally	equally	ADV	_	1 Divide	advmod
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 present	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 present	det
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Divide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	imperative	you not said here	it				among that present; equally property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Deliver it to a teacher or to the office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Deliver	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 teacher	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deliver	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 office	cc
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 office	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 office	det
9	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deliver	imperative	you not said here	it	a teacher or the office				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to teacher=Destination

Option 4

Leave it where it lies for the owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 lies	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lies	nsubj
5	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 owner	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 owner	det
8	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	lie	present	it					for the owner	vn assuming_position-50 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/e2/