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Exam question 3 · Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones

It is given that an account holds sixty pounds and that a payment of three pounds is subsequently effected by telephone. Ascertain the balance remaining.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: account, telephone, you, balance · What happens: give, hold, affect, pay, ascertain, remain · To what, where: It, sixty pounds, payment, three pounds, balance

This is exam question 3 of lesson 5 «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» 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 an account holds sixty pounds and that a payment of three pounds is subsequently effected by telephone.

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	_	7 holds	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 account	det
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holds	nsubj
7	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pounds	nummod
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holds	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 effected	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 effected	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 payment	det
13	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 effected	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 pounds	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pounds	nummod
16	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 payment	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 effected	aux:pass
18	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	19 effected	advmod
19	effected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 holds	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 telephone	case
21	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 effected	obl
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	hold	present	a account	sixty pounds					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme
3	affect	present · passive	telephone	a payment of three pounds				subsequently property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	pay			three pounds					nom payment «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: Ascertain the balance remaining.

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 balance	det
3	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 balance	acl
5	.	.	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 balance					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Topic
2	remain	gerund	the balance not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fifty-seven pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Sixty-three pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 three	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sixty	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Fifty-three pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 three	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Fifty	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Sixty pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	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.

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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