Exam question 2 · Taxes and the government's budget

Ascertain the income tax payable at a rate of one pound in every five upon earnings of £1,000 in excess of the tax-free allowance.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain · To what, where: income tax payable, rate

This is exam question 2 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

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	5 payable	det
3	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 payable	compound
4	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 payable	compound
5	payable	payable	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 rate	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rate	det
8	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pound	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pound	nummod
11	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rate	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 five	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 five	det
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Ascertain	obl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 earnings	case
16	earnings	earning	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 £	case
18	£	£	SYM	_	16 earnings	nmod
19	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 £	nummod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 excess	case
21	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 £	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 allowance	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 allowance	det
24	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 free	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tax	punct
26	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 allowance	amod
27	allowance	allowance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 excess	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the income tax payable		a rate of one pound		in every five; upon earnings	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payable=Topic

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

£100

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

£200

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£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.

Option 4

£800

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	800	800	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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