Exam question 1 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping
It is given that a gratuity of ten per cent, that is one pound in every ten, is to be added to a bill of £40. Determine the total sum payable.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, you · What happens: give, be, add, determine · To what, where: It, one pound, ten, gratuity, total sum payable
This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 a gratuity of ten per cent, that is one pound in every ten, is to be added to a bill of £40.
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 | _ | 23 added | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gratuity | det |
| 6 | gratuity | gratuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 added | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cent | case |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cent | nummod |
| 9 | per | per | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cent | compound |
| 10 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gratuity | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pound | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pound | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pound | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pound | nummod |
| 15 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gratuity | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ten | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 ten | det |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pound | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gratuity | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 added | aux:pass |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 added | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 added | aux:pass |
| 23 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bill | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bill | det |
| 26 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 added | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 £ | case |
| 28 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 26 bill | nmod |
| 29 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 £ | nummod |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | is a | present | that | one pound | every ten | tree rules | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present · passive | a gratuity of ten per cent | to a bill | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to bill=Co-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.
Sentence 2: Determine the total sum payable.
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 | 5 payable | det |
| 3 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 payable | amod |
| 4 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 payable | compound |
| 5 | payable | payable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | . | . | 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 total sum payable | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payable=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£36
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£44
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 40 | 40 | 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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