Exam question 3 · Sweets, change and a friend's toy

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an article deposited in a school's lost property?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, deposit, lose · To what, where: article, lost property

This is exam question 3 of lesson 338 «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 article	det
10	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	deposited	deposit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 article	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	17 property	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 school	det
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 property	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 school	case
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 property	amod
17	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deposited	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	a article		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	deposit	participle	a article not said here	a school's lost property		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in property=Destination
4	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 becomes the property of the finder

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 property	det
4	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 finder	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 finder	det
7	finder	finder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 property	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	the property of the finder					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It becomes the property of the school forthwith

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 property	det
4	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 school	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 school	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 property	nmod
8	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It	the property of the school				forthwith property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It remains the property of its owner

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 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 property	det
4	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 owner	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 owner	nmod:poss
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 property	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It	the property of property's owner					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme property=Attribute

Option 4

It belongs to no person whatsoever once lost

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 belongs	nsubj
2	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 person	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belongs	obl
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 belongs	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 lost	advmod
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 belongs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	It					to no person; whatsoever property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	lose	participle						once property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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