Exam question 2 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping

Ascertain the aggregate sum raised by ten classes, each comprising thirty pupils contributing £1 apiece.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, each, thirty pupils · What happens: ascertain, raise, comprise, contribute · To what, where: aggregate sum, thirty pupils, £ apiece

This is exam question 2 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

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	4 sum	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sum	compound
4	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sum	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 classes	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 classes	nummod
8	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raised	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 comprising	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 comprising	nsubj
11	comprising	comprise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 classes	acl
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pupils	nummod
13	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 comprising	obj
14	contributing	contribute	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 pupils	acl
15	£	£	SYM	_	17 apiece	compound
16	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contributing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate sum	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic
2	raise	participle		the aggregate sum not said here	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	comprise	gerund	each	thirty pupils	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pupil=Pivot
4	contribute	gerund	thirty pupils not said here	£ apiece	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent apiece=Theme

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 · ✓ 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.

Option 2

£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 3

£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.

Option 4

£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.

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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