Exam question 2 · Unemployment: when jobs are lost

Ascertain the value of an economy formerly valued at £100 subsequent to a contraction of one per cent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, value · What happens: ascertain, value, contract · To what, where: economy, one per cent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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 value	det
3	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 valued	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 economy	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 economy	det
6	economy	economy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 value	nmod
7	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	8 valued	advmod
8	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 £	case
10	£	£	SYM	_	8 valued	obl
11	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 valued	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 contraction	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 contraction	det
15	contraction	contraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 subsequent	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 cent	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cent	nummod
18	per	per	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cent	compound
19	cent	cent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contraction	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	value	past	the value of a economy		formerly, subsequent property	vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at £=Value
3	value			a economy		nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	contract			one per cent		nom contraction «act 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

£101

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	101	101	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£1

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

£99

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£90

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	90	90	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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