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Exam question 4 · Regret, silly buys and peer pressure

It is given that an inexpensive article costing three pounds fails and is replaced by a durable article costing seven pounds. Ascertain the total expenditure incurred.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: inexpensive article, durable article, you · What happens: give, cost, fail, replace, ascertain, incur · To what, where: It, three pounds, seven pounds, total expenditure

This is exam question 4 of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 an inexpensive article costing three pounds fails and is replaced by a durable article costing seven pounds.

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	_	11 fails	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 article	det
6	inexpensive	inexpensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 article	amod
7	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fails	nsubj
8	costing	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 article	acl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pounds	nummod
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 costing	obj
11	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 replaced	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 replaced	aux:pass
14	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fails	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 article	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 article	det
17	durable	durable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 article	amod
18	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replaced	obl
19	costing	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 article	acl
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pounds	nummod
21	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 costing	obj
22	.	.	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	cost	gerund	a inexpensive article not said here	three pounds					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value
3	fail	present	a inexpensive article						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	replace	present · passive	a durable article						vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
5	cost	gerund	a durable article not said here	seven pounds					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value

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: Ascertain the total expenditure incurred.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 expenditure	det
3	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 expenditure	amod
4	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	incurred	incur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 expenditure	acl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the total expenditure					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Topic
2	incur	participle		the total expenditure not said here					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Four pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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

Seven pounds

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

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

Option 3

Three pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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 · ✓ 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.

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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