Exam question 3 · Loot boxes and "free" skins
It is given that six mystery boxes are purchased at two pounds each. Compute the total expenditure.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give, purchase · To what, where: It, that, two pounds
This is exam question 3 of lesson 17 «Loot boxes and "free" skins» 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 six mystery boxes are purchased at two pounds each.
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 | 9 purchased | nsubj |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mystery | nummod |
| 6 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boxes | compound |
| 7 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 purchased | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 purchased | aux:pass |
| 9 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 pounds | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pounds | nummod |
| 12 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 purchased | obl |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 pounds | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | purchase | present · passive | that | two pounds each | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 total expenditure.
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 | 4 expenditure | det |
| 3 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 expenditure | amod |
| 4 | expenditure | expenditure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compute | appos |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compute | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Eight pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Twelve pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | 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
Six pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | 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
Ten pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | 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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