Exam question 2 · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

Ascertain the price, after a period of four months, of an article initially priced at £1, its price doubling at the conclusion of each month.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, price · What happens: ascertain, price, double, conclude · To what, where: price, article, conclusion, month

This is exam question 2 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

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 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 period	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 period	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 period	det
7	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 months	case
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 months	nummod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 period	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 article	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 article	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 article	det
14	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	parataxis
15	initially	initially	ADV	_	16 priced	advmod
16	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 article	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 £	case
18	£	£	SYM	_	14 article	nmod
19	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 £	nummod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 price	punct
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 price	nmod:poss
22	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 article	conj
23	doubling	double	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 price	acl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 conclusion	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 conclusion	det
26	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 doubling	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 month	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 month	det
29	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 conclusion	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the price		after a period of four months		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic
2	price	participle		a article and period's price not said here			initially property	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	double	gerund	period's price not said here		the conclusion of each month			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	conclude			each month				nom conclusion «cognition 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

£8

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£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 · ✓ the right answer

£16

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	16	16	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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