Exam question 3 · Taking without paying: the consequences

Identify the course of action most consistent with the established guidance where an adult requests a child to conceal goods and remove them from a shop.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, adult · What happens: identify, establish, request, conceal, remove · To what, where: course, child, goods, shop

This is exam question 3 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 action	case
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 consistent	advmod
7	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 action	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 guidance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guidance	det
10	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 guidance	amod
11	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consistent	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 requests	advmod
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 requests	nsubj
15	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 guidance	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 requests	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 conceal	mark
19	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 requests	advcl
20	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 conceal	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 remove	cc
22	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 conceal	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remove	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 shop	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 shop	det
26	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remove	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the course of action			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	request	present	a adult		a child		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
4	conceal	to-infinitive	a adult not said here	goods			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient
5	remove	infinitive	a adult not said here	goods		a shop	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from shop=Source

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

Refusal and the informing of a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 informing	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 informing	det
4	informing	informing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Refusal	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 adult	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
7	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 adult	amod
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 informing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	inform		a trusted adult						nom informing «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Compliance on a single occasion only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compliance	compliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 occasion	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 occasion	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 occasion	amod
5	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compliance	nmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	5 occasion	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Compliance upon receipt of the payment offered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compliance	compliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offered	nsubj
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 receipt	case
3	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compliance	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 payment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 payment	det
6	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 receipt	nmod
7	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	Compliance upon receipt of the payment						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	receipt			the payment					nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Negotiation of a larger payment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Negotiation	negotiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 payment	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 payment	det
4	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 payment	amod
5	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Negotiation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	negotiate			a larger payment					nom negotiation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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