Exam question 2 · Pocket money and earning it with chores
It is given that a sum of three pounds is received weekly. Compute the aggregate received over a period of five weeks.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, aggregate · What happens: give, receive, sum, compute · To what, where: It, sum, three pounds, period
This is exam question 2 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 sum of three pounds is received weekly.
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 | _ | 11 received | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pounds | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pounds | nummod |
| 9 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sum | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux:pass |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 12 | weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 11 received | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | 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 | receive | present · passive | a sum of three pounds | weekly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sum | three 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: Compute the aggregate received over a period of five weeks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compute | compute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aggregate | det |
| 3 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Compute | ccomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 period | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 period | det |
| 7 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 weeks | nummod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 period | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compute | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | the aggregate | a period of five weeks | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent over period=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Eighteen pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eighteen | eighteen | 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
Twelve pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | 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 · ✓ 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 4
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.
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