Exam question 1 · "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason

Identify the principal error in the assertion that a product ought to be acquired because "everyone" possesses it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, everyone · What happens: identify, acquire, possess · To what, where: principal error, assertion, product

This is exam question 1 of lesson 166 «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world 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 error	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 error	amod
4	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 assertion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 assertion	det
7	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 acquired	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 product	det
10	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 acquired	nsubj:pass
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 acquired	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	14 acquired	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 acquired	aux:pass
14	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 possesses	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 everyone	punct
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 possesses	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 everyone	punct
19	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 acquired	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 possesses	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal error	the assertion	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent error=Theme
2	acquire	ought · passive		a product		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
3	possess	present	everyone	product		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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 product was not sufficiently expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 product	det
2	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expensive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expensive	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 expensive	advmod
5	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	6 expensive	advmod
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the product					expensive, sufficiently property	tree rules

Option 2

The assertion was made on a school day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assertion	det
2	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the assertion			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

The product was available only in one colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 product	det
2	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 available	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 available	cop
4	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 colour	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 colour	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 colour	nummod
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 available	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the product			one colour		available property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Popularity is offered in place of a reason, and the claim was not counted

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Popularity	popularity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	aux:pass
3	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 reason	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 counted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 counted	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 claim	det
12	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 counted	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 counted	aux:pass
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 counted	advmod
15	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 offered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present · passive		Popularity		place of a reason			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
2	not count	past · passive		the claim					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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