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Exam question 1 · Sounds right, but is wrong

It is given that a bat and a ball together cost one pound and ten pence and that the bat costs one pound more than the ball. Ascertain the price of the ball.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bat, you · What happens: give, cost, ascertain · To what, where: It, one pound, more, price

This is exam question 1 of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a bat and a ball together cost one pound and ten pence and that the bat costs one pound more than the ball.

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	_	11 cost	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bat	det
6	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cost	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ball	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bat	conj
10	together	together	ADV	_	11 cost	advmod
11	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pound	nummod
13	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cost	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pence	cc
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pence	nummod
16	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pound	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 costs	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 costs	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bat	det
20	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 costs	nsubj
21	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cost	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 pound	nummod
23	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl:unmarked
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 costs	obj
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 ball	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ball	det
27	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl
28	.	.	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	cost	past	a bat and a ball	one pound and ten pence				together property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value
3	cost	present	the bat	more					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

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 price of the ball.

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	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ball	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	nmod
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 price of the ball					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic

The options

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

Five pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Fifty-five pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Fifty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pence	nummod
4	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One pound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pound	nummod
2	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Ten pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pence	nummod
2	pence	pence	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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