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Test 9 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

At the school tuck shop there is a long queue. What helps you and everyone else?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: long queue · What happens: be, help · To what, where: tuck shop, you

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: At the school tuck shop there is a long queue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 shop	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shop	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tuck	compound
4	tuck	tuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shop	compound
5	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 queue	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 queue	amod
10	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a long queue			the tuck shop; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at shop=Location

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 helps you and everyone else?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 everyone	cc
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 you	conj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 everyone	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present			you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1

Counting your coins slowly at the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coins	nmod:poss
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Counting	obj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Counting	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 front	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 front	det
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		your coins		the front		slowly property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme
2	coin		your						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Asking the price of every item

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 item	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 item	det
6	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		the price of every item					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient

Option 3

Deciding what to buy at the counter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 buy	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 buy	mark
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Deciding	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 counter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 counter	det
7	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	gerund							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive				the counter			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme at counter=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Checking the prices and having your money ready

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prices	det
3	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Checking	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 having	cc
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Checking	conj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obj
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 having	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund		the prices					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme
2	have	gerund		your money				ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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