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Exam question 1 · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

It is given that an article formerly priced at fifty pence is now priced at fifty-five pence. Determine what fraction of the former price the increase represents.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, increase · What happens: give, price, determine, represent · To what, where: It, article, fifty pence, five pence, fraction, former price

This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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 an article formerly priced at fifty pence is now priced at fifty-five pence.

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	_	14 priced	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 article	det
6	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 priced	nsubj:pass
7	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	8 priced	advmod
8	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 article	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 pence	case
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pence	nummod
11	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 priced	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 priced	aux:pass
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 priced	advmod
14	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	19 pence	case
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 five	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fifty	punct
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pence	nummod
19	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 priced	obl
20	.	.	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	price	participle		a article not said here		fifty pence		formerly property	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at pence=Value
3	price	present · passive		a article		five pence	now		vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at pence=Value

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 what fraction of the former price the increase represents.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 fraction	det
3	fraction	fraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 price	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 price	det
6	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 price	amod
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fraction	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 increase	det
9	increase	increase	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 represents	nsubj
10	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 price	acl:relcl
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	what fraction of the former price					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Topic
2	represent	present	the increase	the former price not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot price=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

One half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 half	nummod
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root

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

Option 2

One fifty-fifth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fifth	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fifty	punct
4	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One tenth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tenth	nummod
2	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

One fifth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fifth	nummod
2	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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