Test 11 · Taking care of your things and money

big pack or small pack, which is cheaper

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big pack · What happens: be

This is test 11 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pack	amod
2	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 pack	cc
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pack	amod
5	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pack	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cheaper	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cheaper	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cheaper	cop
9	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pack	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	big pack or small pack					cheap property	tree rules

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

Big packs are always cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 packs	amod
2	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheaper	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheaper	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 cheaper	advmod
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Big packs					always, cheap property	tree rules

Option 2

Pick the brightest one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	the brightest one					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Compare the price of one item

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compare	compare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compare	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 item	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 item	nummod
6	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	imperative	you not said here	the price of one item					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient

Option 4

Small packs are always cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 packs	amod
2	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheaper	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheaper	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 cheaper	advmod
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small packs					always, cheap property	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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