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Exam question 1 · Prices and change at the till

A purchaser tenders a five-pound note in respect of a periodical priced at two pounds sixty pence. Ascertain the change due.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: purchaser, you · What happens: tender, price, respect, ascertain · To what, where: pound note, respect, periodical, two pounds, change

This is exam question 1 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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: A purchaser tenders a five-pound note in respect of a periodical priced at two pounds sixty pence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 purchaser	det
2	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tenders	nsubj
3	tenders	tender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 note	det
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pound	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 five	punct
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 note	compound
8	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tenders	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 respect	case
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tenders	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 periodical	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 periodical	det
13	periodical	periodical	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 respect	nmod
14	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 periodical	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 pounds	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pounds	nummod
17	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 priced	obl
18	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pence	nummod
19	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pounds	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tenders	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tender	present	a purchaser	a pound note		respect of a periodical			tree rules
2	price	participle		a periodical not said here		two pounds and sixty pence			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at pound=Value
3	respect			a periodical					nom respect «cognition 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.

Sentence 2: Ascertain the change due.

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	3 change	det
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	xcomp
5	.	.	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 change				due property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two pounds forty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 2

One pound forty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pound	nummod
2	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pence	compound
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pound	flat
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Two pounds sixty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 4

Three pounds forty pence

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
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

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