Exam question 4 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★

Identify the surest sign that a prize is fraudulent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, prize · What happens: identify, be · To what, where: surest sign

This is exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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 sign	det
3	surest	sure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sign	amod
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fraudulent	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prize	det
7	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fraudulent	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fraudulent	cop
9	fraudulent	fraudulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sign	acl
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 surest sign					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
2	is	present	a prize	the surest sign not said here				fraudulent 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 right answer

A payment is demanded before it may be claimed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 payment	det
2	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demanded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 demanded	aux:pass
4	demanded	demand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 claimed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 claimed	nsubj:pass
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 claimed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 claimed	aux:pass
9	claimed	claim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 demanded	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	present · passive		a payment					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
2	claim speech: other	may · passive		payment					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2

The message arrives by post

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrives	nsubj
3	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 post	case
5	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	the message					by post	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The prize is of modest value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prize	det
2	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 value	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 value	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 value	case
5	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 value	amod
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the prize					of modest value	tree rules

Option 4

The prize was won in a school raffle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prize	det
2	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 won	aux:pass
4	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 raffle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 raffle	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raffle	compound
8	raffle	raffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past · passive		the prize		a school raffle			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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