Exam question 4 · Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning requests for gift card codes by persons claiming to represent a company.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: select, establish, claim, represent, request · To what, where: response, company

This is exam question 4 of lesson 19 «Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts» 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	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	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 requests	amod
10	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 codes	case
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 card	compound
13	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 codes	compound
14	codes	code	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 requests	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 persons	case
16	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 requests	nmod
17	claiming	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 persons	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 represent	mark
19	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 claiming	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 company	det
21	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 represent	obj
22	.	.	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	claim speech: other	gerund	persons not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	represent	to-infinitive	persons not said here	a company		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot company=Theme
5	request		persons		for card codes	nom request «communication transitive»: for=obl by=agent

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

Genuine companies never make such requests, the funds being untraceable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 companies	amod
2	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 requests	amod
6	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 funds	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 funds	det
9	funds	fund	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 untraceable	nsubj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 untraceable	cop
11	untraceable	untraceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 requests	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	Genuine companies	such requests					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product
2	is	gerund	the funds	such requests not said here				untraceable property	tree rules

Option 2

Such requests are customary and may be safely granted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 requests	amod
2	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 customary	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 customary	cop
4	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 granted	cc
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 granted	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 granted	aux:pass
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	9 granted	advmod
9	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 customary	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Such requests	customary					tree rules
2	grant	may · passive	Such requests not said here					safely property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»

Option 3

Such requests are genuine where the sum is below twenty pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 requests	amod
2	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 genuine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 genuine	cop
4	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 pounds	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sum	det
7	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pounds	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pounds	cop
9	below	below	ADV	_	10 twenty	advmod
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pounds	nummod
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 genuine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Such requests					genuine property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the sum	twenty pounds					tree rules

Option 4

Such requests are genuine where the caller knows the account holder's name and address

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 requests	amod
2	requests	request	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 genuine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 genuine	cop
4	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 knows	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caller	det
7	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 genuine	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 holder	det
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holder	compound
11	holder	holder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 holder	case
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knows	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 address	cc
15	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Such requests		genuine property	tree rules
2	know	present	the caller	the account holder's name and address		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	name		the account holder			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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