Exam question 1 · Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more

Identify the term which denotes a sustained rise in the general level of prices over time.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: identify, denote, sustain · To what, where: term, sustained rise

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics 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 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 denotes	nsubj
5	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 term	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rise	det
7	sustained	sustain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rise	amod
8	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 denotes	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 level	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 level	det
11	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 level	amod
12	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rise	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 prices	case
14	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 level	nmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 time	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prices	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	present	the term	a sustained rise	in the general level of prices over time	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot rise=Theme in level=Attribute
3	sustain	participle				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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

Shrinkflation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shrinkflation	shrinkflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A mortgage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mortgage	det
2	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A tariff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tariff	det
2	tariff	tariff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Inflation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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