Exam question 2 · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the users of food banks.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, users

This is exam question 2 of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford 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	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	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 users	det
11	users	user	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 banks	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 banks	compound
14	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 users	nmod
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	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the users of food banks		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus user=Experiencer

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

They are used only during national emergencies

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 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 emergencies	advmod
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 emergencies	case
6	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 emergencies	amod
7	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		They			during national emergencies		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many families, including working ones, use them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ones	punct
4	including	including	ADP	_	6 ones	case
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 families	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 families	punct
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	infinitive	Many families	them = they					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Their use is restricted to persons of great wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 use	nmod:poss
2	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 restricted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 restricted	aux:pass
4	restricted	restrict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 persons	case
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 restricted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wealth	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wealth	amod
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 persons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restrict	present · passive		Their use	persons of great wealth				vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to person=Goal
2	use		Their = they						nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They are used solely by persons unwilling to work

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 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	3 used	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 persons	case
6	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	obl
7	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 persons	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unwilling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive	persons	They	solely property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	unwill	gerund	persons not said here			tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	persons not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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