Exam question 1 · Pocket money, saving and spending

Identify the nature of interest paid upon a savings account.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, pay · To what, where: nature, interest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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	3 nature	det
3	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 interest	case
5	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nature	nmod
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 interest	acl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 account	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 account	det
9	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 account	compound
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl
11	.	.	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 nature of interest					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nature=Theme
2	pay	participle		interest not said here				upon a savings account	vn pay-68-1 «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

The price of opening a money box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 opening	mark
4	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 price	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opening	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund	the price not said here	a money box					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme

Option 2

A charge for withdrawing one's money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 charge	det
2	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 withdrawing	mark
4	withdrawing	withdraw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 charge	acl
5	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 one	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 withdrawing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	withdraw	gerund	a charge not said here	one's money					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

A tax upon pocket money levied by the government each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tax	det
2	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 money	case
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	compound
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tax	nmod
6	levied	levy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tax	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 government	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 government	det
9	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 levied	obl:agent
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 levied	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	levy	participle		a tax upon pocket money not said here			year		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Extra money paid by a bank for keeping money with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 money	amod
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 money	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 keeping	mark
8	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 paid	advcl
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		Extra money not said here				by a bank	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	gerund		money				with money	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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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