Exam question 2 · Crypto and the stock market, simply

Ascertain the reduction in value of a holding of one thousand shares consequent upon a fall of thirty pence in the price of each.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one thousand · What happens: ascertain, hold, share, value · To what, where: reduction, value, holding consequent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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 reduction	det
3	reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 value	case
5	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	13 consequent	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 consequent	det
8	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 consequent	compound
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 shares	mark
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 shares	nsubj
12	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 holding	advcl
13	consequent	consequent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 value	nmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 fall	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fall	det
16	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 pence	case
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pence	nummod
19	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fall	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 price	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 price	det
22	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 each	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 price	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the reduction	value of a holding consequent	upon a fall of thirty pence; in the price of each	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Topic
2	hold	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	share	present	one thousand				tree rules
4	value			a holding consequent			nom value «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

£30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£3,000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

£300

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	300	300	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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