Exam question 2 · In-game currency: coins and gems are real money
It is given that one thousand units of game currency are priced at seven pounds ninety-nine pence. Compute the expenditure incurred in the purchase of two such packs.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, price, compute, incur, purchase · To what, where: It, thousand units, seven pounds, expenditure, purchase, two such packs
This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» 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 one thousand units of game currency are priced at seven pounds ninety-nine pence.
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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thousand | compound |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 units | nummod |
| 7 | units | unit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 priced | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 currency | case |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 currency | compound |
| 10 | currency | currency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 units | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 priced | aux:pass |
| 12 | priced | price | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 pounds | case |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pounds | nummod |
| 15 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 priced | obl |
| 16 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 nine | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ninety | punct |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pence | nummod |
| 19 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pounds | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | thousand units of game currency | seven pounds nine pence | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at 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: Compute the expenditure incurred in the purchase of two such packs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compute | compute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 expenditure | det |
| 3 | expenditure | expenditure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compute | obj |
| 4 | incurred | incur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 expenditure | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 purchase | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 purchase | det |
| 7 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incurred | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 packs | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 packs | nummod |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 packs | amod |
| 11 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 purchase | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compute | imperative | you not said here | the expenditure | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Result | ||||
| 2 | incur | participle | the expenditure not said here | the purchase of two such packs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | purchase | two such packs | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fifteen pounds ninety-nine pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ninety | punct |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pence | nummod |
| 6 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pounds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Seven pounds ninety-nine pence
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 |
| 3 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ninety | punct |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pence | nummod |
| 6 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pounds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Fifteen pounds ninety-eight pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ninety | punct |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pence | nummod |
| 6 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pounds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sixteen pounds ninety-eight pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ninety | punct |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pence | nummod |
| 6 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pounds | conj |
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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