Exam question 2 · Interest on savings and cash machines

Ascertain the balance of a deposit of £100 after two years at ten per cent per annum, interest being compounded annually.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, deposit · What happens: ascertain, compound, balance · To what, where: balance, ten per cent, interest

This is exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Interest on savings and cash machines» 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 balance	det
3	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 deposit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deposit	det
6	deposit	deposit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 balance	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 £	case
8	£	£	SYM	_	6 deposit	nmod
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 cent	case
14	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cent	nummod
15	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cent	compound
16	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
17	per	per	ADP	_	18 annum	case
18	annum	annum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cent	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 interest	punct
20	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cent	conj
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 compounded	aux:pass
22	compounded	compound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 interest	acl
23	annually	annually	ADV	_	22 compounded	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the balance of a deposit	ten per cent per annum and interest	year		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Topic
2	compound	gerund · passive		interest not said here			annually property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	balance		a deposit					nom balance «state intransitive»: of=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

£110

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	110	110	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£120

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

£121

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	121	121	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£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.

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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