Exam question 1 · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a «comfortable» family?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: comfortable family

This is exam question 1 of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 family	det
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 comfortable	punct
11	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 family	amod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 comfortable	punct
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		a comfortable family				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

One possessing furniture of exceptional comfort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 furniture	nummod
2	possessing	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 furniture	amod
3	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 comfort	case
5	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comfort	amod
6	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 furniture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	gerund							vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

One possessing insufficient means for necessities

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 means	nsubj
2	possessing	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
3	insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 possessing	xcomp
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 necessities	case
6	necessities	necessity	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	gerund						insufficient property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	mean	present	One					for necessities	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for necessity=Attribute

Option 3

One possessing unlimited means for every purchase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 means	nsubj
2	possessing	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
3	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 possessing	xcomp
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 purchase	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 purchase	det
7	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	gerund						unlimited property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	mean	present	One					for every purchase	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for purchase=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One possessing sufficient means, though not unlimited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 means	nsubj
2	possessing	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
3	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 possessing	xcomp
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unlimited	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 unlimited	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 unlimited	advmod
8	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	gerund						sufficient property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	mean	present	One						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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