Exam question 1 · Saving for holidays and big things
It is given that a household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,200 by means of monthly deposits of £100. Determine the number of months required.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: household, you · What happens: give, propose, accumulate, mean, determine, require · To what, where: It, sum, number, months · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» 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 household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,200 by means of monthly deposits of £100.
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 | _ | 7 proposes | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 household | det |
| 6 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proposes | nsubj |
| 7 | proposes | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 accumulate | mark |
| 9 | accumulate | accumulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sum | det |
| 11 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accumulate | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 £ | case |
| 13 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 11 sum | nmod |
| 14 | 1,200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 £ | nummod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 means | case |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 proposes | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 deposits | case |
| 18 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deposits | amod |
| 19 | deposits | deposit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 means | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 £ | case |
| 21 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 19 deposits | nmod |
| 22 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 £ | nummod |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | propose | present | a household | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | accumulate | to-infinitive | the sum | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | of monthly deposits | 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.
Sentence 2: Determine the number of months required.
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 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | 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 | . | . | 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 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 |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
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
120
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 | 120 | 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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