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Exam question 2 · «Only one left!»: shops and adverts

It is given that one item was previously priced at twenty rand and that three items are now offered at sixty rand under a «buy two, get one free» promotion. Determine the saving obtained.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, saving · What happens: give, price, offer, buy, get, determine · To what, where: It, one item, twenty rand, that, sixty rand, two

This is exam question 2 of lesson 441 ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that one item was previously priced at twenty rand and that three items are now offered at sixty rand under a «buy two, get one free» promotion.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 priced	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 item	nummod
6	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 priced	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 priced	aux:pass
8	previously	previously	ADV	_	9 priced	advmod
9	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 rand	case
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rand	nummod
12	rand	rand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 priced	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 offered	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 offered	nsubj:pass
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 items	nummod
16	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 offered	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 offered	aux:pass
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 offered	advmod
19	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rand	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 rand	case
21	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 rand	nummod
22	rand	rand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 offered	obl
23	under	under	ADP	_	33 promotion	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 promotion	det
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 buy	punct
26	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 promotion	compound
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 buy	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
29	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 buy	parataxis
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 free	nummod
31	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 get	xcomp
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 buy	punct
33	promotion	promotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rand	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	price	past · passive		one item		twenty rand		previously property	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at rand=Value
3	offer	present · passive		that		sixty rand under a buy promotion	now		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	buy in a quote	infinitive		two					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme
5	get in a quote	infinitive						free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Sentence 2: Determine the saving obtained.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saving	det
3	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	nsubj
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	obtain	past	the saving						vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A saving of twenty rand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saving	det
2	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rand	case
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 rand	nummod
5	rand	rand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saving	nmod

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

Option 2

A saving of sixty rand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saving	det
2	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rand	case
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 rand	nummod
5	rand	rand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saving	nmod

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

Option 3

A saving of forty rand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saving	det
2	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rand	case
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 rand	nummod
5	rand	rand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saving	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No saving whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 saving	det
2	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 saving	advmod

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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