Test 2 · Taking care of your things and money

Which statement is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement					true 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 · ✓ the right answer

A bigger pack is not always cheaper per item

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pack	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pack	amod
3	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cheaper	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cheaper	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 cheaper	advmod
7	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 item	case
9	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a bigger pack					per item; always, cheap property	tree rules

Option 2

A bigger pack is always the better deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pack	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pack	amod
3	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 deal	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bigger pack	the better deal				always property	tree rules

Option 3

Price stickers are always the lowest price anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stickers	compound
2	stickers	sticker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 price	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 price	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 price	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 price	det
6	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 price	amod
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 price	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Price stickers	the lowest price				always, anywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

Things that cost more always last longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 last	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Things	acl:relcl
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cost	obj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 cost	advmod
6	last	last	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Things	more				always property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
2	last	infinitive	Things					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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