Exam question 3 · Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew
It is given that subscriptions of ten, eight, six and five pounds are payable monthly and that only the first is used. Ascertain the sum wasted per annum.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: subscriptions, you, sum · What happens: give, be, use, subscribe, ascertain, waste · To what, where: It, first, ten six pounds
This is exam question 3 of lesson 18 «Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew» 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 subscriptions of ten, eight, six and five pounds are payable monthly and that only the first is used.
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 | _ | 17 monthly | mark |
| 5 | subscriptions | subscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 monthly | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pounds | case |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pounds | nummod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eight | punct |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ten | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 six | punct |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pounds | nummod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 five | cc |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 six | conj |
| 14 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 subscriptions | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 monthly | cop |
| 16 | payable | payable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 monthly | amod |
| 17 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 given | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 used | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 used | mark |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 used | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 first | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 used | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 used | aux:pass |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 monthly | conj |
| 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 | is | present | subscriptions of ten six pounds | monthly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | the first | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | subscribe | ten six pounds | nom subscription «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: Ascertain the sum wasted per annum.
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 sum | det |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wasted | nsubj |
| 4 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | ccomp |
| 5 | per | per | ADP | _ | 6 annum | case |
| 6 | annum | annum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wasted | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | waste | past | the sum | per annum | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two hundred and twenty-eight pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 eight | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eight | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 twenty | punct |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 7 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One hundred and twenty pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 twenty | cc |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Three hundred and forty-eight pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 eight | cc |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eight | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 eight | punct |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 7 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One hundred and ninety pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ninety | cc |
| 4 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | conj |
| 5 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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