Exam question 4 · Crypto and the stock market, simply

Identify the principal advantage of diversification across many companies.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal advantage, many companies

This is exam question 4 of lesson 38 «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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 advantage	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 advantage	amod
4	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 diversification	case
6	diversification	diversification	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 advantage	nmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 companies	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 companies	amod
9	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
10	.	.	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 advantage of diversification		many companies			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme

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 conversion of shares into cryptocurrency

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 conversion	det
2	conversion	conversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 shares	case
4	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 conversion	nmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 cryptocurrency	case
6	cryptocurrency	cryptocurrency	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shares	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convert			shares into cryptocurrency					nom conversion «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The guarantee of profit in every year without exception

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guarantee	det
2	guarantee	guarantee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 profit	case
4	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarantee	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarantee	nmod
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 exception	case
9	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 year	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guarantee			profit			in every year without exception		nom guarantee «communication transitive»: of=patient in=obl

Option 3

The exemption of the investor from all taxation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 exemption	det
2	exemption	exemption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 investor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 investor	det
5	investor	investor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exemption	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 taxation	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 taxation	det
8	taxation	taxation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 investor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exempt			the investor from all taxation					nom exemption «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The limitation of loss arising from the failure of any single company

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 limitation	det
2	limitation	limitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 loss	case
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 limitation	nmod
5	arising	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 limitation	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 failure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 failure	det
8	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arising	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 company	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 company	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 company	amod
12	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 failure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arise	gerund	the limitation of loss not said here		the failure of any single company	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	limit			loss		nom limitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient
3	fail		any single company			nom failure «act intransitive»: of=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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