Exam question 1 · Taxes and the government's budget
It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum. Determine the cost of educating a class of thirty pupils.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cost, you · What happens: give, educate, determine · To what, where: It, one pupil, cost, class
This is exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» 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 the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum.
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 | _ | 12 £ | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cost | det |
| 6 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 £ | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 educating | mark |
| 8 | educating | educate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cost | acl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pupil | nummod |
| 10 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 educating | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 £ | cop |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 given | obl |
| 13 | 7,000 | 7000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | per | per | ADP | _ | 15 annum | case |
| 15 | annum | annum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 £ | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | educate speech: other | gerund | the cost not said here | one pupil | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pupil=Recipient |
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 the cost of educating a class of thirty pupils.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cost | det |
| 3 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 educating | mark |
| 5 | educating | educate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cost | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 educating | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pupils | case |
| 9 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pupils | nummod |
| 10 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 class | nmod |
| 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 | the cost | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic | ||||
| 2 | educate speech: other | gerund | the cost not said here | a class of thirty pupils | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£21,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 21,000 | 21000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£210,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 210,000 | 210,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£2,100,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2,100,000 | 2,100,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£7,030
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7,030 | 7,030 | 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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