Exam question 2 · In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem

Whereas a pupil incurs twenty separate charges of seventy-nine pence each, determine the aggregate expenditure.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: incur, determine, charge · To what, where: twenty separate charges, aggregate expenditure, nine pence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 412 «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	3 pupil	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pupil	det
3	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 incurs	obl
4	incurs	incur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 charges	nummod
6	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 charges	amod
7	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 incurs	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 pence	case
9	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nine	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 seventy	punct
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pence	nummod
12	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 charges	nmod
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 pence	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determine	punct
15	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 incurs	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 expenditure	det
17	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 expenditure	compound
18	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 determine	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 incurs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	incur	present	twenty separate charges of nine pence	whereas a pupil	tree rules
2	determine	infinitive	the aggregate expenditure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Topic
3	charge		nine pence		nom charge «act 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

Twenty pounds and seventy-nine pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seventy	cc
4	seventy	seventy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounds	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 nine	punct
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pence	nummod
7	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifteen pounds and eighty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pence	cc
4	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pence	nummod
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 3

Seventy-nine pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Seventy	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Seven pounds and ninety pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pence	cc
4	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pence	nummod
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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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