Exam question 2 · Gambling and honesty with change

Ascertain the net loss of a person who stakes £20 weekly for fifty-two weeks and receives winnings of £200 in total.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: ascertain, stake, receive · To what, where: net loss, winnings

This is exam question 2 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

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 loss	det
3	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loss	compound
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 person	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loss	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stakes	nsubj
9	stakes	stake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 person	acl:relcl
10	£	£	SYM	_	9 stakes	obj
11	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	9 stakes	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 two	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fifty	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 weeks	nummod
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stakes	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 receives	cc
19	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stakes	conj
20	winnings	winning	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 receives	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 £	case
22	£	£	SYM	_	20 winnings	nmod
23	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 £	nummod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 total	case
25	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 £	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the net loss of a person			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic
2	stake	present	a person		week	weekly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient
3	receive	present	a person not said here	winnings			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winning=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

£1,240

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	1,240	1,240	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

£840

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	840	840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£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 4

£1,040

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	1,040	1,040	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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