Exam question 1 · Taking too much

Identify the principal consequence of one participant appropriating a disproportionate quantity of a shared provision.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one participant · What happens: identify, appropriate, share · To what, where: principal consequence, disproportionate quantity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 352 «Taking too much» 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 consequence	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 consequence	amod
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 participant	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 participant	nummod
7	participant	participant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
8	appropriating	appropriate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 participant	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 quantity	det
10	disproportionate	disproportionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quantity	amod
11	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 appropriating	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 provision	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 provision	det
14	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 provision	amod
15	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quantity	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal consequence of one participant	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
2	appropriate	gerund	one participant not said here	a disproportionate quantity of a shared provision	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
3	share	participle			tree rules

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 quantity of the provision increases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 increases	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 provision	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 provision	det
5	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
6	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	the quantity of the provision						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The provision is replenished automatically

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 provision	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replenished	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 replenished	aux:pass
4	replenished	replenish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	4 replenished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replenish	present · passive		the provision				automatically property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

Option 3

All participants nonetheless receive an equal quantity of the provision

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 participants	det
2	participants	participant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 receive	nsubj
3	nonetheless	nonetheless	ADV	_	4 receive	advmod
4	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quantity	det
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quantity	amod
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receive	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 provision	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 provision	det
10	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quantity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present	all participants	a equal quantity of the provision				nonetheless property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Other participants are left with an insufficient share or none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 participants	amod
2	participants	participant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 share	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 share	det
7	insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 share	amod
8	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 none	cc
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 share	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		Other participants				with a insufficient share	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with share=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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