Exam question 1 · The weekly shop and a family budget

Ascertain the residual sum available to a household which has allocated eighty pounds to its weekly provisions, whereas the items enumerated upon its list amount to seventy-six pounds.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, items, household · What happens: ascertain, allocate, enumerate, provide, amount · To what, where: residual sum, household, six pounds

This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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	4 sum	det
3	residual	residual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sum	amod
4	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	available	available	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sum	amod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 household	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 household	det
8	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 available	obl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 allocated	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 allocated	aux
11	allocated	allocate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 household	acl:relcl
12	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pounds	nummod
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 allocated	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 provisions	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 provisions	nmod:poss
16	weekly	weekly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 provisions	amod
17	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pounds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 enumerated	punct
19	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	22 enumerated	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 items	det
21	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 enumerated	nsubj
22	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	conj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 amount	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 amount	nmod:poss
25	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 amount	compound
26	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 enumerated	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 seventy	case
28	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 six	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 six	punct
30	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 pounds	nummod
31	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 enumerated	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the residual sum		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic
2	allocate	present · perfect · passive		a household		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal pound=Theme
3	enumerate	past	the items	six pounds	upon household's list amount	tree rules
4	provide		household			nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	amount		household			nom amount «possession 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

£156

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	156	156	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£14

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

£4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	6	6	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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