Exam question 3 · How to check: who, how, who else
It is given that an article commending a product bears the notice "paid for by" its manufacturer. State the term for such material.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: article · What happens: give, commend, pay for · To what, where: It, product bears, notice
This is exam question 3 of lesson 35 «How to check: who, how, who else» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that an article commending a product bears the notice "paid for by" its manufacturer.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 commending | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 article | det |
| 6 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commending | nsubj |
| 7 | commending | commend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bears | det |
| 9 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bears | compound |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 commending | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 notice | det |
| 12 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commending | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 notice | punct |
| 14 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 notice | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 paid | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 manufacturer | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 manufacturer | punct |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 manufacturer | nmod:poss |
| 19 | manufacturer | manufacturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | commend | gerund | a article | a product bears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay for in a quote | participle | the notice not said here | by article's manufacturer | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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.
Sentence 2: State the term for such material.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 material | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 material | amod |
| 6 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 term | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 term | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Peer review
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 review | compound |
| 2 | review | review | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A scoop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scoop | det |
| 2 | scoop | scoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A correction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 correction | det |
| 2 | correction | correction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sponsored content
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sponsored | sponsor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 content | amod |
| 2 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sponsor | participle | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
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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