Exam question 2 · Saving up for a game
It is given that a bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved weekly. Determine the number of weeks required.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: that, you · What happens: give, price, pound, hold, save, determine · To what, where: It, bicycle, eighty pounds, five pounds, number, weeks
This is exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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 bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved 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 | _ | 8 priced | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bicycle | det |
| 6 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 priced | aux:pass |
| 8 | priced | price | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 held | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 pounds | case |
| 10 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pounds | nummod |
| 11 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 priced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pounds | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pounds | nsubj |
| 14 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pounds | nummod |
| 15 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pounds | conj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 held | advmod |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saved | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saved | cc |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 five | det |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pounds | nummod |
| 23 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 saved | aux:pass |
| 25 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 26 | weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 25 saved | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | price | present · passive | a bicycle | eighty pounds and twenty pounds | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at pound=Value | ||||
| 3 | pound | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hold | present · passive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 5 | save | present · passive | five pounds | weekly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 number of 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 | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weeks | case |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 weeks | acl |
| 7 | . | . | 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 number of weeks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | weeks not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sixteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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