Exam question 1 · Puzzles, money and video games

Identify the purpose of video game age ratings such as ESRB and PEGI.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, game age ratings · What happens: identify, purpose · To what, where: purpose

This is exam question 1 of lesson 243 «Puzzles, money and video games» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 ratings	case
5	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	compound
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ratings	compound
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ratings	compound
8	ratings	rating	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 purpose	nmod
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 ESRB	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	ESRB	ESRB	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ratings	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 PEGI	cc
13	PEGI	PEGI	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ESRB	conj
14	.	.	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 purpose of game age ratings such ESRB and PEGI					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	purpose		game age ratings such ESRB and PEGI						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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

To indicate how difficult a game is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 indicate	mark
2	indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 difficult	advmod
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 indicate	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 difficult	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	to-infinitive							vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	a game					difficult property	tree rules

Option 2

To indicate the price of a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 indicate	mark
2	indicate	indicate	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 indicate	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 price	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	to-infinitive		the price of a game					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot price=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To warn of violence, frightening content and online contact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 violence	case
4	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warn	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 content	punct
6	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 content	amod
7	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 violence	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 contact	cc
9	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 contact	amod
10	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 violence	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive						of violence and frightening content and online contact	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of violence=Topic

Option 4

To show how long a game lasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 lasts	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lasts	nsubj
7	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	last	present	a game					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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