Exam question 1 · Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax
Ascertain the aggregate monthly expenditure of a household whose obligations are as follows: rent £650, energy £120, water £40, telephone £30 and council tax £110.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, obligations, household · What happens: ascertain, be, expend, obligate · To what, where: aggregate monthly expenditure, household
This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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
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 | 5 expenditure | det |
| 3 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expenditure | compound |
| 4 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 expenditure | amod |
| 5 | expenditure | expenditure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 household | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 household | det |
| 8 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expenditure | nmod |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 obligations | nmod:poss |
| 10 | obligations | obligation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 household | conj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 follows | cop |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 follows | mark |
| 13 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 obligations | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 rent | punct |
| 15 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obligations | appos |
| 16 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 rent | nmod |
| 17 | 650 | 650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 £ | nummod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 energy | punct |
| 19 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rent | conj |
| 20 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 19 energy | appos |
| 21 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 £ | nummod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 water | punct |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rent | conj |
| 24 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 23 water | nmod |
| 25 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 £ | nummod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 telephone | punct |
| 27 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rent | conj |
| 28 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 27 telephone | nmod |
| 29 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 £ | nummod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tax | cc |
| 31 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tax | compound |
| 32 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rent | conj |
| 33 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 32 tax | nmod |
| 34 | 110 | 110 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 £ | nummod |
| 35 | . | . | 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 aggregate monthly expenditure of a household and a household and obligations's obligations | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a household and a household and obligations's obligations's obligations not said here | follow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expend | a household and a household and a household's obligations's obligations | nom expenditure «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | obligate | a household and a household and obligations's obligations | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£1,050
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1,050 | 1,050 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£850
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 850 | 850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£910
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 910 | 910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£950
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 950 | 950 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
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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