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Exam question 3 · The piggy bank and a jar for each goal

A sum of fifty pence is deposited weekly over a period of eight weeks. Compute the aggregate deposited.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, aggregate · What happens: deposit, sum, compute · To what, where: sum, period, fifty pence

This is exam question 3 of lesson 9 «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» 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 sum of fifty pence is deposited weekly over a period of eight weeks.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deposited	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pence	case
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pence	nummod
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sum	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deposited	aux:pass
7	deposited	deposit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	7 deposited	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 period	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 period	det
11	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deposited	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
13	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 weeks	nummod
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 period	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 deposited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deposit	present · passive		a sum of fifty pence		a period of eight weeks		weekly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over period=Destination
2	sum			fifty pence					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 deposited.

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 deposited	nsubj
4	deposited	deposit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Compute	ccomp
5	.	.	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	deposit	past	the aggregate						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Four pounds fifty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	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

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.

Option 4

Two pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	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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