Exam question 1 · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss
It is given that the costs of an enterprise amount to £5 and its revenue to £10. Determine the profit.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, cost, determine · To what, where: It, enterprise amount, profit
This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» 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 the costs of an enterprise amount to £5 and its revenue to £10.
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 | _ | 6 costs | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 costs | det |
| 6 | costs | cost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 amount | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 amount | det |
| 9 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 amount | compound |
| 10 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 costs | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 £ | case |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 amount | nmod |
| 13 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 revenue | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 revenue | nmod:poss |
| 16 | revenue | revenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 costs | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 £ | case |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 revenue | nmod |
| 19 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | the costs of a enterprise amount and amount's revenue obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cost | a enterprise amount | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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 profit.
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 profit | det |
| 3 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | . | . | 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 profit | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
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 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ 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 4
£15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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