Exam question 2 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from
It is given that a monthly salary of two thousand pounds is received. Compute the aggregate received over one year.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, aggregate · What happens: give, receive, compute · To what, where: It, monthly salary
This is exam question 2 of lesson 20 «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» 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 a monthly salary of two thousand pounds is received.
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 | _ | 13 received | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 salary | det |
| 6 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 salary | amod |
| 7 | salary | salary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pounds | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 thousand | compound |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pounds | nummod |
| 11 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 salary | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 received | aux:pass |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | receive | present · passive | a monthly salary of thousand pounds | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP 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 aggregate received over one year.
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 aggregate | det |
| 3 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Compute | ccomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 year | nummod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compute | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | the aggregate | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Twenty-four thousand pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 four | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thousand | compound |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pounds | nummod |
| 5 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twenty thousand pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Twelve thousand pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two thousand four hundred pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pounds | nummod |
| 5 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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