Exam question 4 · Puzzles, money and video games

Ascertain the persons to whom a child may disclose his game password.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: ascertain, disclose · To what, where: persons, game password

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 persons	det
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 disclose	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disclose	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 disclose	aux
9	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 persons	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 password	nmod:poss
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 password	compound
12	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disclose	obj
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 persons					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic
2	disclose	may	a child	child's game password	the persons				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent password=Topic to whom=Recipient

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 right answer

His parents only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 parents	advmod

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

Option 2

His classmates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 classmates	nmod:poss
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Any friendly player online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 player	det
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 player	amod
3	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	online	online	ADV	_	3 player	advmod

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

Option 4

Any person offering free currency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 person	acl
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 currency	amod
5	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	gerund	any person not said here	free currency					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent currency=Theme

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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