Exam question 4 · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

Ascertain the moment at which an error in one's change is most easily corrected.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, correct · To what, where: error

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 corrected	obl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 error	det
7	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 corrected	nsubj:pass
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 change	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 change	nummod
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 error	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 corrected	aux:pass
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 easily	advmod
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	15 corrected	advmod
15	corrected	correct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 moment	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here				moment		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	correct speech: disagree	present · passive		a error in one change			at the moment	easily property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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

On the following day, at the counter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 counter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 counter	det
8	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

After arriving home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 arriving	mark
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 arriving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund						home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

One week later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 week	nummod
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

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

Before leaving the till

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 till	det
4	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the till					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent till=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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