Exam question 1 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★
It is given that a pupil possessing six pounds saves five pounds weekly toward a game of thirty-six pounds. Ascertain the number of weeks required.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pupil, you · What happens: give, possess, save, ascertain, require · To what, where: It, six pounds, five pounds, number, weeks
This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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 a pupil possessing six pounds saves five pounds weekly toward a game of thirty-six 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 | SCONJ | _ | 10 saves | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pupil | det |
| 6 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saves | nsubj |
| 7 | possessing | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 pupil | acl |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pounds | nummod |
| 9 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 possessing | obj |
| 10 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pounds | nummod |
| 12 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saves | obj |
| 13 | weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 16 game | advmod |
| 14 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 16 game | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saves | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pounds | case |
| 18 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 six | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 thirty | punct |
| 20 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pounds | nummod |
| 21 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 game | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | 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 | possess | gerund | a pupil not said here | six pounds | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | present | a pupil | five pounds | toward a game of six pounds | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain the number of weeks required.
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 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weeks | case |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 weeks | acl |
| 7 | . | . | 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 number of weeks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | weeks not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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 2
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 3
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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