Exam question 2 · What a bank does with your money and why banks lend

Identify the institution which, in the United Kingdom, sets the principal rate of interest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, set · To what, where: institution, United Kingdom, principal rate

This is exam question 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 institution	det
3	institution	institution	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Kingdom	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Kingdom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Kingdom	det
8	United	United	PROPN	_	9 Kingdom	flat
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sets	punct
11	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rate	det
13	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rate	amod
14	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sets	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 interest	case
16	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rate	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the institution		the United Kingdom			tree rules
2	set	present		the principal rate of interest					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rate=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Bank of England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bank	det
2	Bank	Bank	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bank	nmod

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

Option 2

The Post Office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Office	det
2	Post	Post	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Office	compound
3	Office	Office	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The local council

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 council	det
2	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 council	amod
3	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Royal Mint in Wales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mint	det
2	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mint	amod
3	Mint	Mint	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Wales	case
5	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mint	nmod

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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