Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★
Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole year. Which is cheaper, chur?»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pay, be
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. 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: Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deal | compound |
| 2 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 £ | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 £ | punct |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 deal | nmod |
| 6 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 £ | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 months | case |
| 10 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 months | nummod |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 deal | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paid | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 paid | cc |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 paid | nsubj |
| 15 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 deal | parataxis |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 paid | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 year | amod |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paid | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 deal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | past | now; year | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: Which is cheaper, chur?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cheaper | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheaper | cop |
| 3 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chur | punct |
| 5 | chur | chur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheaper | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheaper | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheaper | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | chur obl; cheap property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They cost the same, £90
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cost | nsubj |
| 2 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cost | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 £ | punct |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 cost | obl |
| 7 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | past | They | the same | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value |
Option 2
Paying monthly saves £2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saves | csubj |
| 2 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Paying | xcomp |
| 3 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 saves | obj |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | monthly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | present | Paying | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
Option 3
Paying monthly saves £6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saves | csubj |
| 2 | monthly | monthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Paying | xcomp |
| 3 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 saves | obj |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | monthly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | save | present | Paying | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Paying the £90 now saves £6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saves | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 £ | det |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 1 Paying | obj |
| 4 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Paying | advmod |
| 6 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 saves | obj |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 £ | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | now | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset | |||||
| 2 | save | present | Paying | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
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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