Exam question 3 · Prices and change at the till
A sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at twenty pence per item. State the greatest number of items which may be purchased.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hold, price, sum, purchase · To what, where: sum, confectionery, twenty pence, five pence, items
This is exam question 3 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 sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at twenty pence per item.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pence | case |
| 4 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 five | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 seventy | punct |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pence | nummod |
| 7 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sum | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux:pass |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 priced | cc |
| 11 | confectionery | confectionery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 priced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 priced | aux:pass |
| 13 | priced | price | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 held | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 pence | case |
| 15 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pence | nummod |
| 16 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 priced | obl |
| 17 | per | per | ADP | _ | 18 item | case |
| 18 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pence | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | a sum of five pence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | price | present · passive | confectionery | twenty pence per item | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at pence=Value | ||||
| 3 | sum | five pence | 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.
Sentence 2: State the greatest number of items which may be purchased.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 number | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 items | case |
| 6 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 purchased | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 purchased | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 purchased | aux:pass |
| 10 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 items | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 number | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | may · passive | items | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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