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Exam question 2 · Taking without paying: the consequences

It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop. Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, sixty pence · What happens: give, article, price, steal, incur · To what, where: It, five articles, sixty pence, each, shop, loss

This is exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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 five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop.

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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 articles	nsubj
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 articles	nummod
6	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	obj
7	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 articles	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 pence	case
9	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pence	nummod
10	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 priced	obl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 stolen	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stolen	aux:pass
13	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pence	acl:relcl
14	daily	daily	ADV	_	13 stolen	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 shop	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 shop	det
17	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stolen	obl
18	.	.	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	article		that						tree rules
3	price	participle		five articles not said here		sixty pence			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at pence=Value
4	steal	present · passive	sixty pence not said here	each		a shop		daily property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shop=Source

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: Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compute	compute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 loss	det
3	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compute	obj
4	incurred	incur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 loss	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 period	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 period	det
7	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 incurred	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 period	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Compute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	incur	participle		the loss not said here		a period of thirty days			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

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 2

Eighteen pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighteen	eighteen	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

Thirty pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	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

Ninety pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ninety	ninety	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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