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Exam question 2 · Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles

It is given that a cereal is priced at two pounds forty pence per box and is offered at two boxes for five pounds. Ascertain the excess payable under the offer.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, price, offer, ascertain · To what, where: It, cereal, two pounds, two boxes, excess

This is exam question 2 of lesson 12 «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» 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 a cereal is priced at two pounds forty pence per box and is offered at two boxes for five 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	_	8 priced	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cereal	det
6	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 priced	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 priced	aux:pass
8	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 pounds	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pounds	nummod
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 priced	obl
12	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pence	nummod
13	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pounds	conj
14	per	per	ADP	_	15 box	case
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pence	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offered	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 offered	aux:pass
18	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 boxes	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 boxes	nummod
21	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 offered	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 pounds	case
23	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 pounds	nummod
24	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 offered	obl
25	.	.	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	present · passive		a cereal		two pounds and forty pence per box			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at pound=Value
3	offer	present · passive				two boxes		for five pounds goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: for pound=Goal

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 excess payable under the offer.

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 excess	det
3	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	payable	payable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 excess	amod
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 offer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 offer	det
7	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 payable	obl
8	.	.	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 excess					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excess=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sixty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Forty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One pound

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	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	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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