Exam question 2 · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

Ascertain the outcome of trading where six units are sold at fifty pence each, whereas costs of £5 have been incurred.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, sell, incur · To what, where: outcome, six units, fifty, costs

This is exam question 2 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

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 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 trading	case
5	trading	trading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outcome	nmod
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 sold	advmod
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 units	nummod
8	units	unit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sold	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sold	aux:pass
10	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 trading	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 fifty	case
12	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sold	obl
13	pence	pence	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sold	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 costs	punct
16	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	17 costs	case
17	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 incurred	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 £	case
19	£	£	SYM	_	17 costs	nmod
20	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 £	nummod
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 incurred	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 incurred	aux:pass
23	incurred	incur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the outcome of trading			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic
2	sell	present · passive		six units	fifty	pence each	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at fifty=Asset
3	incur	present · perfect · passive		costs			tree rules

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

A loss of £2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 £	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 loss	nmod
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod

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

Option 2

A loss of £5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 £	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 loss	nmod
5	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod

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

Option 3

A profit of £3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 profit	det
2	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 £	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 profit	nmod
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod

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

Option 4

A profit of £2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 profit	det
2	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 £	case
4	£	£	SYM	_	2 profit	nmod
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	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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