Exam question 1 · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

Identify the approximate value of a price of $4.99.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, value · To what, where: approximate value, price

This is exam question 1 of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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	4 value	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 value	amod
4	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 price	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 price	det
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 value	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 $	case
9	$	$	SYM	_	7 price	nmod
10	4.99	4.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 $	nummod
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 approximate value of a price					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent value=Theme
2	value			a price					nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nearly five dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 five	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

About six dollars, if you round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 round	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 round	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 round	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 round	nsubj
7	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 round	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	round	present	six dollars	it					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Exactly four dollars and nine cents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cents	cc
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cents	nummod
6	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dollars	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Approximately four dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 four	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dollars	nummod
3	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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