Exam question 3 · Wants and needs

Identify the course of action most consistent with prudence where funds suffice for only one of a refrigerator and a television, the existing television being serviceable.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, funds, existing television · What happens: identify, suffice, exist, be · To what, where: course

This is exam question 3 of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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	_	9 prudence	case
9	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consistent	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 suffice	advmod
11	funds	fund	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 suffice	nsubj
12	suffice	suffice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prudence	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 one	case
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 suffice	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 refrigerator	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 refrigerator	det
18	refrigerator	refrigerator	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 television	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 television	det
21	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 refrigerator	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 serviceable	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 television	det
24	existing	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 television	amod
25	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 serviceable	nsubj
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 serviceable	cop
27	serviceable	serviceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Identify	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	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	suffice	present	funds		for one of a refrigerator and a television	tree rules
3	exist	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	gerund	the existing television		serviceable 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 acquisition of neither

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acquisition	det
2	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 neither	case
4	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 acquisition	nmod

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

Option 2

The acquisition of the television

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acquisition	det
2	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 television	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 television	det
5	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquisition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire			the television					nom acquisition «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The acquisition of the refrigerator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acquisition	det
2	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 refrigerator	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 refrigerator	det
5	refrigerator	refrigerator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquisition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire			the refrigerator					nom acquisition «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The borrowing of funds to acquire both forthwith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 borrowing	det
2	borrowing	borrowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 funds	case
4	funds	fund	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrowing	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 acquire	mark
6	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 borrowing	acl
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 forthwith	advmod
8	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acquire	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	to-infinitive						forthwith property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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