Exam question 3 · Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★

Identify the more economical arrangement: £5 payable weekly or £19 payable monthly.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: economical arrangement

This is exam question 3 of lesson 62 «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» of the adult life 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	5 arrangement	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 economical	advmod
4	economical	economical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arrangement	amod
5	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 £	punct
7	£	£	SYM	_	1 Identify	obl
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 £	nummod
9	payable	payable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 monthly	amod
10	weekly	weekly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 monthly	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 £	cc
12	£	£	SYM	_	10 weekly	conj
13	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	payable	payable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 monthly	amod
15	monthly	monthly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 5	nmod:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the economical arrangement					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent arrangement=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

£5 weekly, as weeks are fewer in number overall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	3 weekly	obl:unmarked
2	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	8 fewer	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 weekly	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 weeks	case
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fewer	obl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fewer	cop
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 number	case
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fewer	obl
11	overall	overall	ADV	_	8 fewer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				number	week	few, overall, weekly property	tree rules

Option 2

Neither, the two being exactly equal in cost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	7 equal	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 two	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 equal	nsubj
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 equal	cop
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 equal	advmod
7	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 cost	case
9	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 equal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the two			cost		equal, exactly, neither property	tree rules

Option 3

£5 weekly, being the smaller sum on each occasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	8 sum	nsubj
2	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	1 £	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sum	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sum	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sum	det
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sum	amod
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 occasion	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 occasion	det
11	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sum	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		the smaller sum		each occasion			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

£19 monthly, as a month exceeds four weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	8 exceeds	nsubj
2	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	monthly	monthly	ADV	_	1 £	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 exceeds	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 exceeds	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exceeds	nsubj
8	exceeds	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 weeks	nummod
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 exceeds	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	present					week		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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