Exam question 4 · Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★
Ascertain the number of weeks required to save for an item costing £36, given £8 already held and £4 saved weekly.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, item · What happens: ascertain, require, save, cost, give, hold · To what, where: number, weeks
This is exam question 4 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weeks | case |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 weeks | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 save | mark |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 required | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 item | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 item | det |
| 11 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 save | obl |
| 12 | costing | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 item | acl |
| 13 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 12 costing | obj |
| 14 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 £ | nummod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ascertain | parataxis |
| 17 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 given | obj |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 £ | nummod |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 20 held | advmod |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 £ | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saved | cc |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 24 saved | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 held | conj |
| 25 | weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 24 saved | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the number of weeks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | weeks not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | for a item | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for item=Source | |||||
| 4 | cost | gerund | a item not said here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value | |||||
| 5 | give | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | hold | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | save | participle | weekly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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