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Test 8 · ★★ · Borrowing and debt

Two loans for the same car: one adds £5 a year for every £100 borrowed, the other £15. Which costs less in total?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: add, borrow, cost · To what, where: less, total

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Borrowing and debt» 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: Two loans for the same car: one adds £5 a year for every £100 borrowed, the other £15.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 loans	nummod
2	loans	loan	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 car	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 car	amod
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loans	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 adds	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 adds	nsubj
9	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loans	conj
10	£	£	SYM	_	9 adds	obj
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 adds	obl:unmarked
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 £	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 £	det
16	£	£	SYM	_	9 adds	obl
17	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 £	nummod
18	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 £	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 £	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 £	amod
22	£	£	SYM	_	9 adds	obl
23	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 £	nummod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	one				year		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient
2	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «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 costs less in total?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 costs	nsubj
2	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 costs	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 total	case
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 less	nmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 costs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present		less		total			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value

The options

Option 1

The one that adds more is always cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheaper	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 adds	nsubj
4	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 adds	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cheaper	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 cheaper	advmod
8	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	the one	more					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	is	present	the one					always, cheap property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The one that adds £5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 adds	nsubj
4	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 adds	obj
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	the one						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They cost exactly the same

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=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	They	the same					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value

Option 4

The one that adds £15

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 adds	nsubj
4	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 adds	obj
6	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	the one						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient

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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