Exam question 1 · «Free skins» and scams in games

Identify the principal reason for which a person professing to be a moderator requests a user's password.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, profess, be, request · To what, where: principal reason, moderator, password

This is exam question 1 of lesson 444 ««Free skins» and scams in games» 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	14 requests	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 requests	nsubj
9	professing	profess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 person	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	13 moderator	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 moderator	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moderator	det
13	moderator	moderator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 professing	advcl
14	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 user	det
16	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 password	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 user	case
18	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 requests	obj
19	.	.	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	profess	gerund	a person not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	a person not said here	a moderator		tree rules
4	request	present	a person	a 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 account in accordance with policy

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 account	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 user	case
6	account	account	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	_	10 policy	case
10	policy	policy	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 account		accordance		with policy	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot account=Topic
2	account		the user						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

To award the user a promotion in rank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 award	mark
2	award	award	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 award	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 promotion	det
6	promotion	promotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 award	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rank	case
8	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 award	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	award	to-infinitive		the user		rank			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent user=Goal promotion=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ 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

Option 4

To protect the user from other players

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	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 protect	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 players	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 players	amod
7	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive		the user				from other players	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent user=Beneficiary from player=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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