Exam question 2 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★
It is given that four pounds is saved weekly toward a sum of thirty pounds. Determine the least number of whole weeks required.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, save, sum, determine, require · To what, where: It, four pounds, thirty pounds, least number, whole weeks
This is exam question 2 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 four pounds is saved weekly toward a sum of thirty 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 | _ | 8 saved | mark |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pounds | nummod |
| 6 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saved | aux:pass |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 8 saved | advmod |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 sum | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sum | det |
| 12 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saved | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pounds | case |
| 14 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pounds | nummod |
| 15 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sum | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | save | present · passive | four pounds | toward a sum of thirty pounds; weekly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sum | thirty pounds | nom sum «possession 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: Determine the least number of whole weeks required.
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 | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 weeks | case |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weeks | amod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 8 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 weeks | acl |
| 9 | . | . | 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 least number of whole weeks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | whole weeks not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Seven and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 half | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 1 Seven | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3 · ✓ the right answer
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.
Option 4
Nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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