Exam question 2 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

Whereas a sum of twenty pounds is received and one half thereof is reserved for saving, determine the amount remaining for expenditure upon games.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, amount · What happens: receive, reserve, determine, remain, sum · To what, where: sum, one half, amount, games, twenty pounds

This is exam question 2 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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	_	8 received	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sum	det
3	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 received	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 pounds	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pounds	nummod
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sum	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 received	aux:pass
8	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 determine	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reserved	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 half	nummod
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 reserved	nsubj:pass
12	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	11 half	advmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 reserved	aux:pass
14	reserved	reserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 received	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 saving	case
16	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reserved	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 received	punct
18	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 amount	det
20	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 determine	obj
21	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 amount	acl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 expenditure	case
23	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 remaining	obl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 games	case
25	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 remaining	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	present · passive		a sum of twenty pounds			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reserve	present · passive		one half		for saving	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for saving=Beneficiary
3	determine	imperative	you not said here	the amount			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Topic
4	remain	gerund	the amount not said here		games	for expenditure	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon game=Location
5	sum			twenty pounds			nom sum «possession 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

Ten pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Fifteen pounds

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

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

Option 3

Five pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty pounds

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

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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