Exam question 4 · Seasons, terms and holidays

Whereas a holiday is priced at £800 in an ordinary week and at £1,200 during half-term, determine the additional cost.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: price, determine · To what, where: holiday, additional cost

This is exam question 4 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	5 priced	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 holiday	det
3	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 priced	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 priced	aux:pass
5	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 determine	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 £	case
7	£	£	SYM	_	5 priced	obl
8	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 £	nummod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 week	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 week	amod
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 £	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 £	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 £	case
15	£	£	SYM	_	7 £	conj
16	1,200	1200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	during	during	ADP	_	20 term	case
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	20 term	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 half	punct
20	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 £	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 priced	punct
22	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cost	det
24	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cost	amod
25	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 determine	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	price	present · passive		a holiday					vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at £=Value
2	determine	imperative	you not said here	the additional cost					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Four hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pounds	nummod
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pounds	nummod
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two thousand pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pounds	nummod
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Eight hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 pounds	nummod
3	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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