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Exam question 4 · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★

It is given that five pounds is deducted for every hundred pounds of the price of a television of three hundred pounds. Ascertain the saving.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, deduct, televise, ascertain · To what, where: It, that, hundred pounds, saving

This is exam question 4 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

Sentence 1: It is given that five pounds is deducted for every hundred pounds of the price of a television of three hundred pounds.

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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 deducted	nsubj:pass
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pounds	nummod
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 that	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deducted	aux:pass
8	deducted	deduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 pounds	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pounds	nummod
12	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deducted	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 price	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 price	det
15	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pounds	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 television	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 television	det
18	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 price	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 pounds	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hundred	compound
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pounds	nummod
22	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 television	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	deduct	present · passive		that				for hundred pounds of the price of a television of hundred pounds	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	televise			hundred pounds					nom television «communication transitive»: of=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: Ascertain the saving.

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	3 saving	det
3	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the saving					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saving=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Five pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fifteen pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Three pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Thirty-five pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Thirty	conj
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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