Exam question 3 · When money is tight: "we can't afford it"

Ascertain the aggregate saving to a household in respect of free school meals, given that each meal would otherwise cost £2.50 and that the school week comprises five days.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, aggregate, meal, school week · What happens: ascertain, save, give, cost, comprise, respect · To what, where: aggregate, respect, free school meals

This is exam question 3 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

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	3 aggregate	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 aggregate	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 household	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 household	det
7	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saving	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 respect	case
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saving	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 meals	case
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 meals	amod
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meals	compound
13	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 respect	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 given	punct
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 meals	acl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cost	mark
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 meal	det
18	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cost	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cost	aux
20	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	21 cost	advmod
21	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 given	advcl
22	£	£	SYM	_	21 cost	obj
23	2.50	2.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 £	nummod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 comprises	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 comprises	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 week	det
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 week	compound
28	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comprises	nsubj
29	comprises	comprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cost	conj
30	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 days	nummod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 comprises	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aggregate=Topic
2	save	gerund	the aggregate not said here		respect of free school meals		to a household	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	give	participle		free school meals not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	cost	would	each meal				otherwise property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value
5	comprise	present	the school week			day		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	respect			free school meals				nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

£12.50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	12.50	12.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£125

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	125	125	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£10.50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	10.50	10.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£7.50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	7.50	7.50	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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