Exam question 3 · Shops, restaurants and libraries

In respect of restaurants in the United States, state the customary gratuity.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: respect · To what, where: restaurants

This is exam question 3 of lesson 273 «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 respect	case
2	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 restaurants	case
4	restaurants	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 respect	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 States	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 States	det
7	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 States	amod
8	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 restaurants	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 state	punct
10	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 States	appos
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gratuity	det
12	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gratuity	compound
13	gratuity	gratuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 state	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 respect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respect			restaurants in the United States					nom respect «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

Approximately one half of the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 half	nummod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bill	det
6	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 half	nmod

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

Option 2

No gratuity whatsoever is customary in that country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 whatsoever	det
2	gratuity	gratuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whatsoever	compound
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 customary	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 customary	cop
5	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 customary	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	no gratuity whatsoever	customary		that country			tree rules

Option 3

Approximately one to two per cent of the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cent	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	nmod
5	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	compound
6	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bill	det
9	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately fifteen to twenty per cent of the bill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cent	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 twenty	case
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fifteen	nmod
5	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	compound
6	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bill	det
9	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cent	nmod

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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