Exam question 3 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★
A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds monthly thereafter. Ascertain the total paid over twelve months.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: subscription, you · What happens: be, cost, ascertain, pay · To what, where: eight pounds, total
This is exam question 3 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: A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds monthly thereafter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 subscription | det |
| 2 | subscription | subscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | cop |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 month | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 month | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 month | amod |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 costs | cc |
| 10 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | conj |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pounds | nummod |
| 12 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 costs | obj |
| 13 | monthly | monthly | ADV | _ | 14 thereafter | advmod |
| 14 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 10 costs | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a subscription | month | free property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cost | present | a subscription not said here | eight pounds | thereafter property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value |
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 total paid over twelve months.
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 total | det |
| 3 | total | total | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 total | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 twelve | advmod |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 months | nummod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obj |
| 8 | . | . | 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 total | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent total=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay | participle | the total not said here | month | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ninety-six pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 six | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Ninety | conj |
| 4 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Eight pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | 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
Eighty pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighty | eighty | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Eighty-eight pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eight | punct |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Eighty | conj |
| 4 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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