Exam question 4 · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

State the means by which adults obtain money to pay for home, food and bills.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State, adults · What happens: mean, obtain, pay · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 obtain	obl
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtain	nsubj
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obtain	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pay	mark
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obtain	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 food	punct
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 home	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bills	cc
16	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 home	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	State			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	obtain	present	adults	money		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	pay	to-infinitive	adults not said here		for home and food and bills	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=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

By printing it at the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 printing	mark
2	printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 printing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 printing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	gerund		it		the bank			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

By asking the government each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 asking	mark
2	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 government	det
4	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asking	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		the government			week		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent government=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 working	mark
2	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

By using a card machine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 using	mark
2	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 machine	det
4	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 machine	compound
5	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a card machine					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=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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