Test 5 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending
Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money. How many weeks will it take?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, you, many weeks · What happens: lend, agree, pay back, take · To what, where: you, pocket money, money
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lends | nsubj |
| 3 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lends | iobj |
| 5 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 3 lends | obj |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 $ | nummod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gift | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gift | det |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lends | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 agree | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 agree | nsubj |
| 12 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lends | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pay | mark |
| 14 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agree | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 pay | advmod |
| 16 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 14 pay | obj |
| 17 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 $ | nummod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 week | det |
| 19 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 money | case |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 money | compound | ||
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | present | Your mum | you | for a gift | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient $=Theme | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay back not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | pocket money | week | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Asset |
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: How many weeks will it take?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weeks | amod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | expl |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | many weeks | money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
10 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
8 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
2 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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