Exam question 2 · Saving for holidays and big things

Ascertain the aggregate of the savings objectives enumerated as follows: holiday £600, boiler £1,500 and Christmas £400.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, enumerate, follow · To what, where: aggregate, savings objectives

This is exam question 2 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

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	of	of	ADP	_	7 objectives	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 objectives	det
6	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 objectives	compound
7	objectives	objective	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 aggregate	nmod
8	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 objectives	acl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 follows	mark
10	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 enumerated	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 holiday	punct
12	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aggregate	appos
13	£	£	SYM	_	12 holiday	nmod
14	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 £	nummod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boiler	punct
16	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holiday	conj
17	£	£	SYM	_	16 boiler	nmod
18	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 £	nummod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Christmas	cc
20	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 holiday	conj
21	£	£	SYM	_	20 Christmas	flat
22	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 £	nummod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate of the savings objectives	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aggregate=Topic
2	enumerate	participle		the savings objectives not said here	tree rules
3	follow	present			vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

£2,400

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	2,400	2,400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£2,100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	2,100	2,100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£1,900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	1,900	1,900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

£2,500

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	2,500	2500	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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