Exam question 2 · Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the…

Identify the principal purpose of online «generators» promising free game currency.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, generators · What happens: identify, promise · To what, where: principal purpose, free game currency

This is exam question 2 of lesson 314 «Too-good-to-be-true offers, online scams and checking the news» 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 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 online	case
6	online	online	ADV	_	1 Identify	obl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 generators	punct
8	generators	generator	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 promising	nsubj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 generators	punct
10	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	parataxis
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 currency	amod
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 currency	compound
13	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promising	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	gerund	generators	free game currency					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent currency=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

To test the speed of the internet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speed	det
4	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 internet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 internet	det
7	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speed	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		the speed of the internet					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Theme

Option 2

To advertise official game updates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 advertise	mark
2	advertise	advertise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 updates	amod
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 updates	compound
5	updates	update	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 advertise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advertise	to-infinitive		official game updates					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot update=Topic

Option 3

To reward loyal players with free gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 reward	mark
2	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 players	amod
4	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reward	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 gifts	case
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gifts	amod
7	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reward	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reward	to-infinitive		loyal players				with free gifts	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent player=Recipient with gift=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To steal accounts and passwords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 steal	mark
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steal	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 passwords	cc
5	passwords	password	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accounts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	to-infinitive		accounts and passwords					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location account=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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