Exam question 2 · Debt, loans, credit cards and interest
Ascertain the number of months required to discharge a debt of £1,200 by means of monthly instalments of £50.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, require, discharge, mean · To what, where: number, months, debt
This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» 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 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 months | case |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 months | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 discharge | mark |
| 8 | discharge | discharge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 required | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 debt | det |
| 10 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discharge | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 £ | case |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 debt | nmod |
| 13 | 1,200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 means | case |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 instalments | case |
| 17 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 instalments | amod |
| 18 | instalments | instalment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 means | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 £ | case |
| 20 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 18 instalments | nmod |
| 21 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 £ | nummod |
| 22 | . | . | 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 number of months | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | months not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | discharge | to-infinitive | a debt | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | of monthly instalments | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
24
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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