Exam question 2 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

Ascertain the unit cost of a bracelet where materials sufficient for ten bracelets are procured for the sum of £2.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, procure, cost · To what, where: unit cost, materials, bracelet

This is exam question 2 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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	4 cost	det
3	unit	unit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	compound
4	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bracelet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bracelet	det
7	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 procured	advmod
9	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 procured	nsubj:pass
10	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 materials	amod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 bracelets	case
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 bracelets	nummod
13	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sufficient	obl
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 procured	aux:pass
15	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bracelet	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 sum	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sum	det
18	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 procured	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 £	case
20	£	£	SYM	_	18 sum	nmod
21	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 £	nummod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the unit cost of a bracelet		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic
2	procure	present · passive		materials	for the sum	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for sum=Beneficiary
3	cost			a bracelet		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.

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

10p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 p	nummod
2	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

20p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 p	nummod
2	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

£20

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	20	20	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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