Exam question 4 · Saving up for a game

Identify the principal effect of an unplanned purchase upon progress towards a saving goal.

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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 effect	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 effect	amod
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 purchase	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 purchase	det
7	unplanned	unplanned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 purchase	amod
8	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 effect	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 progress	case
10	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purchase	nmod
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 goal	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 goal	det
13	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goal	compound
14	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
15	.	.	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 effect of a unplanned purchase upon progress				towards a saving goal	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
2	effect			a unplanned purchase upon progress					nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 price of the goal is reduced in consequence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reduced	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 goal	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goal	det
5	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 price	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reduced	aux:pass
7	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 consequence	case
9	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reduced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present · passive		the price of the goal		consequence			vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The goal is attained more rapidly than planned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goal	det
2	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attained	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attained	aux:pass
4	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 rapidly	advmod
6	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	4 attained	advmod
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 planned	mark
8	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 attained	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	present · passive		the goal				rapidly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	plan	participle							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No effect whatsoever is had upon the goal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 effect	det
2	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux:pass
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 effect	acl:relcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 goal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goal	det
8	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · passive		whatsoever				upon the goal	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The attainment of the goal is deferred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attainment	det
2	attainment	attainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deferred	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 goal	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goal	det
5	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attainment	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deferred	aux:pass
7	deferred	defer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defer	present · passive		the attainment of the goal					vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source
2	attain			the goal					nom attainment «act transitive»: of=patient

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