Exam question 4 · Taking care of your things and money
It being given that money is deposited in a bank as savings, determine what the bank ordinarily pays.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bank · What happens: give, deposit, determine, pay · To what, where: It, money, bank
This is exam question 4 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deposited | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deposited | aux:pass |
| 7 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bank | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bank | det |
| 10 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deposited | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 savings | case |
| 12 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 deposited | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 determine | punct |
| 14 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 pays | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bank | det |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pays | nsubj |
| 18 | ordinarily | ordinarily | ADV | _ | 19 pays | advmod |
| 19 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 determine | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deposit | present · passive | that money | a bank | as savings | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bank=Destination | |||
| 3 | determine | infinitive | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | pay | present | the bank | ordinarily property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
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
A prize, awarded only at the end of each year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prize | det |
| 2 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 awarded | punct |
| 4 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prize | acl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 end | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | award | participle | a prize not said here | at the end of each year | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Interest, being a small additional sum of money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sum | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sum | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sum | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sum | amod |
| 6 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sum | amod |
| 7 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Interest | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sum | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | Interest not said here | a small additional sum | of money | tree rules |
Option 3
A fee, being a sum taken from the savings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fee | det |
| 2 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sum | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sum | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fee | conj |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sum | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 savings | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 savings | det |
| 10 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a sum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | participle | a sum not said here | the savings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from savings=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Nothing, the money being merely stored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 money | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 money | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stored | aux:pass |
| 6 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 7 stored | advmod |
| 7 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 money | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | gerund · passive | the money not said here | merely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
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