Exam question 1 · «Free V-bucks» and other scams

Identify the principal reason for which a website promising complimentary in-game currency requests the user's password.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, website · What happens: identify, promise, request · To what, where: principal reason, complimentary game currency, password

This is exam question 1 of lesson 416 ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» 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 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 requests	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 website	det
8	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 requests	nsubj
9	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 website	acl
10	complimentary	complimentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 currency	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 game	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 currency	compound
14	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promising	obj
15	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 user	det
17	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 password	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 user	case
19	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 requests	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	gerund	a website not said here	complimentary game currency		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent currency=Theme
3	request	present	a website	the user's password	for the principal reason	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent password=Recipient

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

To verify the user's age in accordance with the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 verify	mark
2	verify	verify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 user	det
4	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 age	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 user	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 verify	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 accordance	case
8	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 verify	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 verify	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	verify	to-infinitive		the user's age		accordance		with the law	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot age=Topic

Option 2

To deposit the promised currency more rapidly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 deposit	mark
2	deposit	deposit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 currency	det
4	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 currency	amod
5	currency	currency	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deposit	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 rapidly	advmod
7	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	2 deposit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deposit	to-infinitive		the promised currency				rapidly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent currency=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	participle							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To register the user for a forthcoming competition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 register	mark
2	register	register	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 user	det
4	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 register	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 competition	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 competition	det
7	forthcoming	forthcoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 competition	amod
8	competition	competition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 register	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	register	to-infinitive		the user				for a forthcoming competition	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent user=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To obtain unauthorised control of the user's account

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unauthorised	unauthorised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 control	amod
4	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obtain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 account	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 user	det
7	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 account	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 user	case
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 control	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive		unauthorised control of the user's account					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset control=Theme
2	account		the user						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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