--- title: Ascertain the value of an economy formerly valued at £100 subsequent… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the value of an economy formerly valued at £100 subsequent to a contraction of one per cent. Exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/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/) / [Unemployment: when jobs are lost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Unemployment: when jobs are lost Ascertain the value of an economy formerly valued at £100 subsequent to a contraction of one per cent. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, value · **What happens:** ascertain, value, contract · **To what, where:** economy, one per cent This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the value of an economy formerly valued at £100 subsequent to a contraction of one per cent. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 economy economy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 formerly formerly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 valued value VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 £ £ SYM $ _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 12 subsequent subsequent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 contraction contraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 per per NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cent cent NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **value** | past | the value of a economy | | | | | formerly, subsequent *property* | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at £=Value | | 3 | **value** | | | a economy | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **contract** | | | one per cent | | | | | nom contraction «act 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £101 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e2:o1:1 # text = £101 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 101 101 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e2:o2:1 # text = £1 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} £99 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e2:o3:1 # text = £99 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 99 99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £90 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e2:o4:1 # text = £90 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` 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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