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Exam question 2 · The weekly shop and a family budget

It is given that one retailer charges £62 and another £54 for an identical assortment of goods. Determine the saving obtainable over a period of fifty-two weeks by patronising the latter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one retailer, you · What happens: give, charge, determine, save, patronis · To what, where: It, period, latter

This is exam question 2 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

Sentence 1: It is given that one retailer charges £62 and another £54 for an identical assortment of goods.

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	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 retailer	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retailer	compound
6	retailer	retailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charges	nsubj
7	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	£	£	SYM	_	7 charges	obj
9	62	62	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 £	cc
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 £	det
12	£	£	SYM	_	8 £	conj
13	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 assortment	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 assortment	det
16	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 assortment	amod
17	assortment	assortment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 £	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 goods	case
19	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 assortment	nmod
20	.	.	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	charge	present	that one retailer						vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location £=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: Determine the saving obtainable over a period of fifty-two weeks by patronising the latter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saving	det
3	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Determine	advcl
4	obtainable	obtainable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saving	xcomp
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 period	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 period	det
7	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saving	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 weeks	case
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 two	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fifty	punct
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 weeks	nummod
12	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 period	nmod
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 patronising	mark
14	patronising	patronis	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saving	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 latter	det
16	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 patronising	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	save	gerund	you not said here			a period of two weeks		obtainable property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	patronis	gerund	you not said here	the latter					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

£364

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	364	364	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£468

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	468	468	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

£416

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	416	416	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£400

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	400	400	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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