Exam question 2 · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★

Determine the least number of coins by which change of two pounds eighty pence may be tendered.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, change, two pounds · What happens: determine, tender, coin, change · To what, where: least number

This is exam question 2 of lesson 41 «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tendered	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 coins	case
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 change	case
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 change	det
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pounds	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pounds	nummod
12	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 change	nmod
13	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pence	nummod
14	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pounds	conj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tendered	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 tendered	aux:pass
17	tendered	tender	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tender	may · passive		the least number of coins by which change of two pounds and eighty pence	tree rules
3	coin		which change of two pounds and eighty pence		nom coin «possession transitive»: by=agent
4	change		two pounds and eighty pence		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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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