Exam question 4 · Wants and needs

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning products sold under a retailer's own brand.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, retailer · What happens: select, establish, sell, brand · To what, where: response, concerning products, own brand

This is exam question 4 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	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 products	amod
10	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 facts	conj
11	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 products	acl
12	under	under	ADP	_	17 brand	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 retailer	det
14	retailer	retailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brand	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 retailer	case
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brand	amod
17	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sold	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	sell	participle		concerning products not said here	a retailer's own brand		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	brand		a retailer				nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=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

They may not lawfully be sold as food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sold	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sold	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sold	advmod
4	lawfully	lawfully	ADV	_	6 sold	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sold	aux:pass
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	may · passive		They				as food; lawfully property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

They are invariably of inferior quality and unsafe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quality	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quality	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	6 quality	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 quality	case
5	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quality	amod
6	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 unsafe	cc
8	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quality	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of inferior quality; invariably property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Option 3

They are invariably dearer than branded products

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dearer	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dearer	cop
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 dearer	advmod
4	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 products	case
6	branded	brand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 products	amod
7	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dearer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					than branded products; dear, invariably property	tree rules
2	brand	participle							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are frequently of comparable quality at a lower price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quality	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quality	cop
3	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	6 quality	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 quality	case
5	comparable	comparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quality	amod
6	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 price	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 price	det
9	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 price	amod
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quality	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			a lower price		of comparable quality; frequently property	tree rules

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