Exam question 3 · School councils and class reps
It is given that a candidate distributes confectionery in exchange for an undertaking to vote for him. State the term for such conduct.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: candidate · What happens: give, distribute, vote · To what, where: It, confectionery, exchange
This is exam question 3 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» 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 a candidate distributes confectionery in exchange for an undertaking to vote for him.
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 distributes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 candidate | det |
| 6 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distributes | nsubj |
| 7 | distributes | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | confectionery | confectionery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distributes | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 exchange | case |
| 10 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distributes | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 undertaking | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 undertaking | det |
| 13 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exchange | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 vote | mark |
| 15 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 undertaking | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 vote | obl |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | distribute | present | a candidate | confectionery | exchange for a undertaking | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent confectionery=Theme | |||
| 3 | vote | to-infinitive | a candidate not said here | for candidate | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for he=Goal |
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 conduct.
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 conduct | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 conduct | amod |
| 6 | conduct | conduct | 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
Conceding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conceding | concede | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concede | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A referendum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 referendum | det |
| 2 | referendum | referendum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Bribery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bribery | bribery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A survey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 survey | det |
| 2 | survey | survey | 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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