Exam question 3 · Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the reported effect of sanctions upon Russia?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, report, effect · To what, where: reported effect, sanctions

This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 effect	det
10	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 effect	amod
11	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sanctions	case
13	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 effect	nmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 Russia	case
15	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sanctions	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the reported effect of sanctions upon Russia	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	report	participle			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	effect		sanctions upon Russia		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

They terminated the war within a single week

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	2 terminated	nsubj
2	terminated	terminate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 terminated	obj
5	within	within	ADP	_	8 week	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 terminated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	terminate	past	They	the war			week		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They impaired the Russian economy, whereas they did not bring the war to an end

The tree, 15 words

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	2 impaired	nsubj
2	impaired	impair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 economy	det
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 economy	amod
5	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 impaired	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
7	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	11 bring	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bring	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bring	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bring	advmod
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 impaired	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 war	det
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impair	past	They	the Russian economy					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus economy=Experiencer
2	not bring	past · do-support	they	the war			to a end		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent war=Theme to end=Destination

Option 3

They exerted no effect whatsoever upon the Russian economy, which grew more swiftly than in any previous year

The tree, 18 words

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	2 exerted	nsubj
2	exerted	exert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exerted	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 exerted	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 economy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 economy	det
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 economy	amod
9	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exerted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 economy	acl:relcl
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 swiftly	advmod
14	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	12 grew	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	19 year	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 year	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 year	det
18	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 year	amod
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exert	past	They	no effect				upon the Russian economy; whatsoever property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
2	grow	past	the Russian economy				year	swiftly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They augmented Russian revenues from all sources

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	2 augmented	nsubj
2	augmented	augment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 revenues	amod
4	revenues	revenue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 augmented	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sources	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sources	det
7	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 augmented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	augment	past	They	Russian revenues		all sources			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent revenue=Patient

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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