Exam question 2 · Being trusted and what to do with things you find

Identify the principal reason for which extra items dispensed by a machine in error are to be reported.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, dispense, report · To what, where: principal reason, extra items, error

This is exam question 2 of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 items	det
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 items	amod
8	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reported	nsubj:pass
9	dispensed	dispense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 items	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 machine	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 machine	det
12	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dispensed	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 error	case
14	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dispensed	obl
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 reported	aux:pass
16	to	to	PART	_	18 reported	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 reported	aux:pass
18	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	dispense	participle		which extra items not said here	error	by a machine	tree rules
3	report	present · passive	you not said here	which extra items			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 right answer

Someone else paid for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 paid	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Someone	advmod
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Someone					for them = they	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

Option 2

The items are invariably defective

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 items	det
2	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 defective	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 defective	cop
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 defective	advmod
5	defective	defective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the items					defective, invariably property	tree rules

Option 3

Reporting them earns a reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reporting	report	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 earns	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Reporting	obj
3	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reward	det
5	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 earns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	gerund		them = they					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	earn	present	Reporting	a reward					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme

Option 4

Machines report such errors automatically

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 report	nsubj
2	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 errors	amod
4	errors	error	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 report	obj
5	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	2 report	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	present	Machines	such errors				automatically property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent error=Patient

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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