Exam question 4 · The check that settles it

Determine the most appropriate response to a text message from an unfamiliar number, purporting to be from one's child and requesting money.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, purport, be, request · To what, where: appropriate response, money

This is exam question 4 of lesson 451 «The check that settles it» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 response	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 appropriate	advmod
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 response	amod
5	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 message	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 message	det
8	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 message	compound
9	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 response	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 number	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 number	det
12	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 number	amod
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 message	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 purporting	punct
15	purporting	purport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Determine	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	21 child	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 child	cop
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 child	case
19	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 child	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 one	case
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 purporting	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 requesting	cc
23	requesting	request	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 purporting	conj
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 requesting	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response	to a text message from a unfamiliar number	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic
2	purport	gerund	you not said here			tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	you not said here		from one's child	tree rules
4	request	gerund	you not said here	money		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent money=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

To reply requesting further details of the emergency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 reply	mark
2	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	requesting	request	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 details	amod
4	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 details	amod
5	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reply	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 emergency	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 emergency	det
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 details	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	to-infinitive	requesting further details of the emergency	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent detail=Topic
2	request	gerund		vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	detail		the emergency	nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

To transmit half the sum requested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 transmit	mark
2	transmit	transmit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 sum	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sum	det
5	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transmit	obj
6	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 transmit	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	to-infinitive		half sum					tree rules
2	request	participle							vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To contact the child by the number already known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 contact	mark
2	contact	contact	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contact	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 number	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contact	obl
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 known	advmod
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 number	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contact	to-infinitive		the child				by the number	tree rules
2	know	participle		the number not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

To transmit the money without delay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 transmit	mark
2	transmit	transmit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transmit	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 delay	case
6	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transmit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transmit	to-infinitive		the money				without delay	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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