Exam question 1 · Gambling and honesty with change
It is given that change of fifty pence was due, whereas change of five pounds was tendered in error. Determine the excess sum which ought to be returned.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: change, fifty pence, five pounds, you · What happens: give, be, tender, change, determine, return · To what, where: It, change, error, excess sum
This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Gambling and honesty with change» 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 change of fifty pence was due, whereas change of five pounds was tendered in error.
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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 change | det |
| 5 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 due | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pence | case |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pence | nummod |
| 8 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 change | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 due | cop |
| 10 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tendered | punct |
| 12 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 18 tendered | mark |
| 13 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tendered | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pounds | case |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pounds | nummod |
| 16 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 change | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tendered | aux:pass |
| 18 | tendered | tender | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 due | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 error | case |
| 20 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tendered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | past | that change of fifty pence | due property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tender | past · passive | change of five pounds | error | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | change | fifty pence | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | change | five pounds | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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 excess sum which ought to be returned.
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 | 4 sum | det |
| 3 | excess | excess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sum | compound |
| 4 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 returned | obj |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 returned | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 returned | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returned | aux:pass |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sum | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | 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 excess sum | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return | ought · passive | you not said here | the excess sum | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
£4.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4.50 | 4.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
50p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£5.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5.50 | 5.50 | 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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