Exam question 2 · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything
Given that a parent undertakes to match a child's savings towards an item costing two hundred pounds, ascertain the sum the child must save.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parent, item, child · What happens: give, undertake, match, cost, ascertain, save · To what, where: savings, hundred pounds, sum
This is exam question 2 of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 undertakes | mark |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 undertakes | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 undertakes | nsubj |
| 5 | undertakes | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ascertain | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 match | mark |
| 7 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 undertakes | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 savings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 child | case |
| 11 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 match | obj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 item | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 item | det |
| 14 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 match | obl |
| 15 | costing | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 item | acl |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 pounds | nummod |
| 18 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 costing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ascertain | punct |
| 20 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sum | det |
| 22 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ascertain | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 save | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 save | aux |
| 26 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sum | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | undertake | present | a parent | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | match | to-infinitive | a parent not said here | a child's savings | towards a item | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Patient | |||
| 4 | cost | gerund | a item not said here | hundred pounds | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value | ||||
| 5 | ascertain | present | the sum | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic | |||||
| 6 | save | must | the child | the sum not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | ||||
| 7 | save | a child | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Two hundred pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
One hundred pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four hundred pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Fifty pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifty | fifty | 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.
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