Exam question 1 · When money is tight: "we can't afford it"
It is given that a bicycle is priced at £200, whereas the sum remaining to a household after essential expenditure is £50. Determine the shortfall.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, you · What happens: give, price, remain, determine · To what, where: It, bicycle, shortfall
This is exam question 1 of lesson 23 «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» 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 bicycle is priced at £200, whereas the sum remaining to a household after essential expenditure is £50.
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 | _ | 8 priced | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bicycle | det |
| 6 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 priced | aux:pass |
| 8 | priced | price | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 £ | case |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 priced | obl |
| 11 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sum | punct |
| 13 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 15 sum | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sum | det |
| 15 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 £ | appos |
| 16 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sum | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 household | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 household | det |
| 19 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remaining | obl |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 expenditure | case |
| 21 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 expenditure | amod |
| 22 | expenditure | expenditure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remaining | obl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 £ | cop |
| 24 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 £ | conj |
| 25 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 £ | nummod |
| 26 | . | . | 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 | price | present · passive | a bicycle | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at £=Value | |||||
| 3 | remain | gerund | the sum not said here | after essential expenditure | to a household | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 shortfall.
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 shortfall | det |
| 3 | shortfall | shortfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the shortfall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shortfall=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£250
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£200
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
£150
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | 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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