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Test 3 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

A sign says "Only $9.99!" What is the honest way to think of this price?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign, honest way · What happens: say, be, think · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A sign says "Only $9.99!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 $	punct
5	Only	only	ADV	_	6 $	advmod
6	$	$	SYM	_	3 says	obj
7	9.99	9.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 $	nummod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 $	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a sign						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.

Sentence 2: What is the honest way to think of this price?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 price	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 price	det
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the honest way						tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the honest way not said here					of this price	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is about $9, as you drop the cents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 $	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 $	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 $	advmod
4	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
5	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 $	nummod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 drop	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 drop	nsubj
9	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 $	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cents	det
11	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	you	the cents					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is basically $10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 $	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 $	cop
3	basically	basically	ADV	_	4 $	advmod
4	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 $	nummod

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

Option 3

It is a lot less than $10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 less	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 less	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 less	obl:unmarked
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 $	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 less	fixed
7	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 $	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					a lot obl:unmarked; less property	tree rules

Option 4

It is half price, a real bargain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 price	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 price	cop
3	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 price	amod
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bargain	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bargain	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bargain	amod
8	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 price	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	half price and a real bargain					tree rules

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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