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Exam question 2 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence. Ascertain the change due.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purchaser, article, you · What happens: tender, price, respect, ascertain · To what, where: pound coin, respect, five pence, one pound, article, change

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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: A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 purchaser	det
2	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tenders	nsubj
3	tenders	tender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coin	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pound	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coin	compound
8	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tenders	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 respect	case
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tenders	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 article	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 article	det
13	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 respect	nmod
14	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 article	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 pound	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pound	nummod
17	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 priced	obl
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 five	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 thirty	punct
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pence	nummod
21	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 priced	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tenders	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tender	present	a purchaser	a pound coin		respect of a article			tree rules
2	price	participle	a article not said here	five pence		one pound			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent pence=Theme at pound=Value
3	respect			a article					nom respect «cognition 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 change due.

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 change	det
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	xcomp
5	.	.	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 change				due property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Seventy-five pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Seventy	conj
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Thirty-five pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty-five pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sixty	conj
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Fifty-five pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Fifty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	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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