Exam question 1 · What a bank does with your money and why banks lend
It is given that a bank remunerates a depositor at two per cent and lends the same £100 at seven per cent. Determine the sum retained by the bank in one year.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bank, you · What happens: give, remunerate, lend, determine, retain · To what, where: It, depositor, two per cent, seven per cent, sum
This is exam question 1 of lesson 28 «What a bank does with your money and why banks lend» 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 bank remunerates a depositor at two per cent and lends the same £100 at seven per cent.
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 remunerates | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remunerates | nsubj |
| 7 | remunerates | remunerate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 depositor | det |
| 9 | depositor | depositor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remunerates | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 cent | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 cent | nummod |
| 12 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cent | compound |
| 13 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remunerates | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lends | cc |
| 15 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 remunerates | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 £ | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 £ | amod |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 lends | obj |
| 19 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 cent | case |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 cent | nummod |
| 22 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cent | compound |
| 23 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lends | obl |
| 24 | . | . | 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 | remunerate | present | a bank | a depositor | two per cent | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent depositor=Recipient | |||
| 3 | lend | present | a bank not said here | seven per cent | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Determine the sum retained by the bank in one year.
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 sum | det |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sum | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retained | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 year | nummod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retained | obl |
| 11 | . | . | 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 sum | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic | ||||
| 2 | retain | participle | the sum not said here | year | by the bank | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£9
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | 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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