Exam question 4 · Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles

Identify the principal condition upon which a multiple-purchase offer occasions a genuine saving.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, purchase offer · What happens: identify, occasion · To what, where: principal condition, genuine saving

This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» of the money 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 condition	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 occasions	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 offer	det
8	multiple	multiple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 purchase	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 multiple	punct
10	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	compound
11	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 occasions	nsubj
12	occasions	occasion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 saving	det
14	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saving	amod
15	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 occasions	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal condition					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	occasion	present	a purchase offer	a genuine saving				upon the principal condition	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 · ← Mova's choice

That the offer is displayed in large lettering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 offer	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 offer	det
3	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 displayed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 displayed	aux:pass
5	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 lettering	case
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lettering	amod
8	lettering	lettering	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 displayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	display	present · passive		that offer		large lettering			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That every article so purchased is required and used

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 article	det
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 article	det
3	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 required	nsubj:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 purchased	advmod
5	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 article	acl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 required	aux:pass
7	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 used	cc
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 required	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	purchase	participle	that article not said here	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	require	present · passive	that article	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
3	use	participle		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That the articles are perishable and expire promptly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 perishable	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 articles	det
3	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 perishable	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 perishable	cop
5	perishable	perishable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 expire	cc
7	expire	expire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 perishable	conj
8	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	7 expire	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					perishable property	tree rules
2	expire	infinitive	That not said here					promptly property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

That the purchaser possesses a loyalty card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 purchaser	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purchaser	det
3	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possesses	nsubj
4	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 card	det
6	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 card	compound
7	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possesses	obj

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