Exam question 4 · Pocket money and earning it with chores
A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk. Determine the total earnings over four weeks.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, you · What happens: walk, determine · To what, where: dog, one pound, total earnings
This is exam question 4 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: A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obj |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walks | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 3 walks | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 pound | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pound | nummod |
| 11 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walks | obl |
| 12 | per | per | ADP | _ | 13 walk | case |
| 13 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pound | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a child | a dog | one pound per walk | time | weekly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dog=Theme at pound=Trajectory |
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 total earnings over four weeks.
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 earnings | det |
| 3 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 earnings | amod |
| 4 | earnings | earning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 weeks | case |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weeks | nummod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Determine | obl |
| 8 | . | . | 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 total earnings | week | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earning=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twenty-five pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 five | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twenty | punct |
| 3 | five | five | 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 2
Nine pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | 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
Twenty pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | 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
Five pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | 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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