Exam question 4 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

State the reason for which money is kept in a zipped pocket or wallet.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: keep, zip · To what, where: money, zipped pocket

This is exam question 4 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 kept	obl
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux:pass
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 pocket	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pocket	det
11	zipped	zip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pocket	amod
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wallet	cc
14	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pocket	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		money		a zipped pocket or wallet		for the reason	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pocket=Location
2	zip	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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

It is required by shopkeepers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 shopkeepers	case
5	shopkeepers	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 required	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive	shopkeepers	It					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Precondition

Option 2

It stays warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is easier to spend quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 easier	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spend	mark
5	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 spend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	spend	to-infinitive						quickly property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is harder to lose or to be stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harder	cop
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lose	mark
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 harder	csubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 stolen	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	9 stolen	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 stolen	aux:pass
9	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	hard property	tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	steal	to-infinitive · passive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»

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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