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# Exam question 3 · Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet

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Identify the principal finding of the 2019 study in which some 17,000 wallets were handed in across 40 countries.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, hand, find · **To what, where:** principal finding, 17,000 wallets, 2019 study

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 95 «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet:e3:1
# text = Identify the principal finding of the 2019 study in which some 17,000 wallets were handed in across 40 countries.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	finding	finding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	17,000	17,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	wallets	wallet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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 principal finding of the 2019 study |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent finding=Theme |
| 2 | **hand** | past · passive |  | some 17,000 wallets |  | the 2019 study |  | in 40 countries | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **find** |  |  | the 2019 study |  |  |  |  | nom finding «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Wallets containing money were never returned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet:e3:o1:1
# text = Wallets containing money were never returned
1	Wallets	wallet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | gerund | Wallets *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **return** | past · passive |  | Wallets |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wallets were returned only in a single country

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet:e3:o2:1
# text = Wallets were returned only in a single country
1	Wallets	wallet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · passive |  | Wallets |  | a single country |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Wallets containing more money were returned more frequently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet:e3:o3:1
# text = Wallets containing more money were returned more frequently
1	Wallets	wallet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | gerund | Wallets *not said here* | more money |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past · passive |  | Wallets |  |  |  | frequently *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The amount of money had no relation whatsoever to the outcome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet:e3:o4:1
# text = The amount of money had no relation whatsoever to the outcome
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	outcome	outcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the amount of money | no relation |  |  |  | to the outcome; whatsoever *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient |
| 2 | **amount** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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