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Exam question 3 · Saving up for a game

It is given that a parent contributes fifty pence for each pound saved, and that ten pounds is saved. Ascertain the aggregate sum thereupon held.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parent, that, you, aggregate sum · What happens: give, contribute, save, pound, ascertain, hold · To what, where: It, fifty pence, pound, aggregate sum

This is exam question 3 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 parent contributes fifty pence for each pound saved, and that ten pounds is saved.

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 contributes	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contributes	nsubj
7	contributes	contribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pence	nummod
9	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 contributes	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 pound	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 pound	det
12	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pence	nmod
13	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pound	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pounds	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pounds	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 pounds	nsubj
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pounds	nummod
18	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	obl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 saved	aux:pass
20	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	parataxis
21	.	.	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	contribute	present	a parent	fifty pence				for each pound	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pence=Theme
3	save	participle		each pound not said here					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pound		that						tree rules
5	save	present · passive							vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»

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 aggregate sum thereupon held.

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	4 sum	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sum	compound
4	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	6 held	advmod
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sum	acl:relcl
7	.	.	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 aggregate sum					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic
2	hold	past	the aggregate sum not said here					thereupon property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

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 2 · ✓ 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 3

Ten pounds fifty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 4

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.

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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