Exam question 2 · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

Identify, from the items hereinafter enumerated, that which constitutes a need rather than a want.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, items · What happens: identify, enumerate, constitute · To what, where: items, need

This is exam question 2 of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 items	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 items	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 items	det
5	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Identify	obl
6	hereinafter	hereinafter	ADV	_	7 enumerated	advmod
7	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 items	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 constitutes	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 constitutes	mark
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 constitutes	nsubj
11	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 need	det
13	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 constitutes	obj
14	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	17 want	cc
15	than	than	ADP	_	14 rather	fixed
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 want	det
17	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here		the items		vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	enumerate	past	the items not said here			hereinafter property	tree rules
3	constitute	present		a need rather a want			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme need=Pivot

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

A games console

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 console	det
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 console	compound
3	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Shelter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A box of sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sweets	case
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 box	nmod

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

Option 4

A fashionable jacket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jacket	det
2	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jacket	amod
3	jacket	jacket	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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