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Exam question 3 · Sounds right, but is wrong

An article priced at ten pounds is increased in price by one half and is subsequently reduced by one half. Compute the final price.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one half · What happens: price, increase, reduce · To what, where: article, ten pounds, price

This is exam question 3 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: An article priced at ten pounds is increased in price by one half and is subsequently reduced by one half.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 article	det
2	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increased	nsubj:pass
3	priced	price	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 article	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 pounds	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pounds	nummod
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 priced	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 increased	aux:pass
8	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 price	case
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increased	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 half	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 half	nummod
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 increased	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reduced	cc
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reduced	aux:pass
16	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	17 reduced	advmod
17	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 increased	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 half	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 half	nummod
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 reduced	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 increased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	price	participle		a article not said here		ten pounds			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at pound=Value
2	increase	present · passive	one half	a article		price			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer subject=Patient
3	reduce	present · passive	one half					subsequently property	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

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 final price.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compute	compute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
3	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 price	amod
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compute	appos
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Compute	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Twelve pounds and fifty pence

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
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pence	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pence	nummod
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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

Option 2

Five pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	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

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Seven pounds and fifty pence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pence	cc
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pence	nummod
5	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pounds	conj

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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