--- title: A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dol… · tree and pragmatics description: A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence. Ascertain the change due. Exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dol…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence. Ascertain the change due. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** purchaser, article, you · **What happens:** tender, price, respect, ascertain · **To what, where:** pound coin, respect, five pence, one pound, article, change This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/#e2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e2:1 # text = A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 purchaser purchaser NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tenders tender VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 priced price VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tender** | present | a purchaser | a pound coin | | respect of a article | | | tree rules | | 2 | **price** | participle | a article *not said here* | five pence | | one pound | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent pence=Theme at pound=Value | | 3 | **respect** | | | a article | | | | | nom respect «cognition 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:* Ascertain the change due. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e2:2 # text = Ascertain the change due. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the change | | | | due *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Seventy-five pence ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e2:o1:1 # text = Seventy-five pence 1 Seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Thirty-five pence ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e2:o2:1 # text = Thirty-five pence 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Sixty-five pence ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e2:o3:1 # text = Sixty-five pence 1 Sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Fifty-five pence ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e2:o4:1 # text = Fifty-five pence 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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