Exam question 3 · Unemployment: when jobs are lost

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the unemployment rate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: unemployment rate

This is exam question 3 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rate	det
10	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rate	compound
11	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	?	?	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		the unemployment rate				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 · ← Mova's choice

The total number of persons resident in a country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
2	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 number	amod
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resident	compound
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 persons	case
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	resident	resident	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resident	nmod

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

Option 2

The percentage of employees in receipt of a pay rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 percentage	det
2	percentage	percentage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 employees	case
4	employees	employee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 percentage	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 receipt	case
6	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 percentage	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 rise	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rise	det
9	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rise	compound
10	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receipt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receipt			a pay rise					nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The number of factories closed in a given year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 factories	case
4	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 factories	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle		factories not said here			year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	give	participle							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The percentage of persons seeking employment who are without it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 percentage	det
2	percentage	percentage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 persons	case
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 percentage	nmod
5	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 employment	amod
6	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 percentage	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 percentage	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 who	cop
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 who	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	gerund							vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present						without employment	tree rules

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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