Test 19 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

my mate says $4.99 is basically $4. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	$	$	SYM	_	3 says	obj
5	4.99	4.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 $	nummod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 $	cop
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 $	advmod
8	$	$	SYM	_	4 $	conj
9	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 $	nummod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent $=Topic

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's almost $5; the price just seems cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 $	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 $	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 $	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 $	advmod
6	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
7	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 $	nummod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 seems	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 price	det
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seems	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 seems	advmod
12	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 $	parataxis
13	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 seems	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	the price					cheap property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, the 99 cents don't count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cents	det
4	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 cents	nummod
5	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 count	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 count	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 count	advmod
8	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	the 99 cents						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

No, it's about $6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 $	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 $	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 $	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 $	advmod
6	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 $	nummod

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

Option 4

Yes, round down always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 round	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	round	round	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 round	compound:prt
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 round	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	round down	imperative	you not said here					always property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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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