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title: Identify the surest sign that a prize is fraudulent. — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the surest sign that a prize is fraudulent. Exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★

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Identify the surest sign that a prize is fraudulent.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, prize · **What happens:** identify, be · **To what, where:** surest sign

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e4:1
# text = Identify the surest sign that a prize is fraudulent.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	surest	sure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fraudulent	fraudulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the surest sign |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a prize | the surest sign *not said here* |  |  |  | fraudulent *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A payment is demanded before it may be claimed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e4:o1:1
# text = A payment is demanded before it may be claimed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	demanded	demand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | present · passive |  | a payment |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | may · passive |  | payment |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The message arrives by post

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e4:o2:1
# text = The message arrives by post
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | the message |  |  |  |  | by post | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The prize is of modest value

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e4:o3:1
# text = The prize is of modest value
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the prize |  |  |  |  | of modest value | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The prize was won in a school raffle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e4:o4:1
# text = The prize was won in a school raffle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	raffle	raffle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · passive |  | the prize |  | a school raffle |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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**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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