Exam question 3 · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning garments acquired second-hand.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, concerning garments · What happens: select, establish, acquire · To what, where: response, second hand

This is exam question 3 of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 garments	amod
10	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 garments	acl
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 hand	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 second	punct
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acquired	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	acquire	participle	concerning garments not said here	second hand		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are clean, serviceable and widely used

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clean	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	cop
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 serviceable	punct
5	serviceable	serviceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clean	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 used	cc
7	widely	widely	ADV	_	8 used	advmod
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	They	clean property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here		tree rules
3	use	participle	They not said here	widely property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are prohibited under school regulations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prohibited	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prohibited	aux:pass
3	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 regulations	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 regulations	compound
6	regulations	regulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prohibited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive		They		school regulations			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

They are worn only by families without income

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 worn	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worn	aux:pass
3	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 worn	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 families	case
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worn	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 income	case
8	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present · passive	families	They				without income	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source

Option 4

They are invariably unclean and unserviceable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unclean	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unclean	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 unclean	advmod
4	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 unserviceable	cc
6	unserviceable	unserviceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unclean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					invariably, unclean property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

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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