Exam question 2 · Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours

Identify the principal reason why a remark that five pounds is «nothing» may cause distress.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, that, remark · What happens: identify, be, cause · To what, where: principal reason, nothing, distress

This is exam question 2 of lesson 492 «Friends who only come for the pool: rich kids and rumours» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 cause	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 remark	det
7	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cause	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 nothing	nsubj
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pounds	nummod
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nothing	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	cop
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 remark	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 nothing	punct
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 cause	aux
16	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl:relcl
17	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cause	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	is a in a quote	present	that	nothing	tree rules
3	cause	may	a remark	distress	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition distress=Patient

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

Such remarks are prohibited by law in schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remarks	amod
2	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prohibited	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prohibited	aux:pass
4	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prohibited	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 schools	case
8	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prohibited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prohibit	present · passive	law	Such remarks		schools			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme

Option 2

Five pounds is in fact a very great fortune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fact	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fact	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fortune	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 great	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fortune	amod
9	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fact	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Five pounds			fact		a great fortune nmod	tree rules

Option 3

The trip in question was in fact cancelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trip	det
2	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fact	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 question	case
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trip	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fact	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 fact	case
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fact	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trip in question			fact			tree rules
2	cancel	participle		fact not said here					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

For some families such a sum is considerable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 families	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 families	det
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 considerable	obl
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 sum	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sum	det
6	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 families	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 considerable	cop
8	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for some families such sum; considerable property	tree rules

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