Exam question 3 · Taking care of your things and money

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning advertisements.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 advertisements	amod
12	advertisements	advertisement	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 facts	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts and concerning advertisements; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

They provide neutral information without persuasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 provide	nsubj
2	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neutral	neutral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 information	amod
4	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 persuasion	case
6	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	present	They	neutral information				without persuasion	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition information=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They are made only for things that people need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 things	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 things	case
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 need	obj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		They				for things	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for thing=Asset
2	need	present	people	things					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They are designed to cause persons to desire things, even those not needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 designed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 designed	aux:pass
3	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cause	mark
5	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 designed	advcl
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cause	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 desire	mark
8	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cause	xcomp
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 desire	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 those	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 those	advmod
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 designed	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 needed	advmod
14	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 those	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	design	present · passive		They	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	cause	to-infinitive		persons	tree rules
3	desire	to-infinitive	persons not said here	things	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
4	not need	participle			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

They always state the cheapest price available

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 state	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 state	advmod
3	state	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 price	det
5	cheapest	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 price	amod
6	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 state	obj
7	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 price	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present	They	the cheapest price				always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent price=Topic

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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