Exam question 3 · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

Select the response consistent with established practice upon receiving excess change.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established practice · What happens: select, establish, receive · To what, where: response, excess change

This is exam question 3 of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 practice	amod
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 receiving	mark
9	receiving	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 practice	acl
10	excess	excess	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 change	amod
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 receiving	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	receive	gerund	established practice not said here	excess change	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme

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

One retains it as good fortune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 retains	nsubj
2	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 retains	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 fortune	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fortune	amod
6	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	present	One	it				as good fortune	tree rules

Option 2

One spends it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spends	nsubj
2	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spends	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 spends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	One	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

Option 3

One returns only half of it to the assistant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 returns	nsubj
2	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 returns	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 half	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 assistant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 assistant	det
9	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	One	half of half		the assistant			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme to assistant=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One informs the assistant and returns the extra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 informs	nsubj
2	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 assistant	det
4	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 informs	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 returns	cc
6	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 informs	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 extra	det
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 returns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	present	One	the assistant					vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assistant=Recipient
2	return	present	One not said here	the extra					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=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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