Exam question 4 · Mum's card: game money is real money

Select the measure most consistent with the established facts for preventing unintended purchases by young children on a household device.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, prevent · To what, where: measure, unintended purchases

This is exam question 4 of lesson 414 «Mum's card: game money is real 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 measure	det
3	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 facts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 facts	det
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 facts	amod
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 consistent	obl
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 preventing	mark
11	preventing	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 facts	acl
12	unintended	unintended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 purchases	amod
13	purchases	purchase	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 preventing	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 preventing	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 device	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 device	det
19	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 device	compound
20	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 children	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the measure		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	prevent	gerund	the established facts not said here	unintended purchases	by young children on a household device	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer purchase=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

Permitting purchases solely during daylight hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permitting	permit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	purchases	purchase	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Permitting	obj
3	solely	solely	ADV	_	1 Permitting	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hours	compound
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Permitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	gerund		purchases			hour	solely property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchase=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Retaining the payment card on the device without restriction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Retaining	retain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 card	det
3	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 card	compound
4	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Retaining	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 device	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 device	det
7	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Retaining	obl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 restriction	case
9	restriction	restriction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Retaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retain	gerund		the payment card		the device		without restriction	tree rules

Option 3

Recording the card numbers upon the device

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recording	record	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 numbers	det
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 numbers	compound
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Recording	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 device	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 device	det
7	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recording	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	gerund		the card numbers		the device			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme upon device=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Requiring a password or lock for every purchase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Requiring	require	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 password	det
3	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Requiring	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 lock	cc
5	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 password	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 purchase	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 purchase	det
8	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Requiring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	gerund		a password or lock				for every purchase	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme password=Precondition

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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