Test 8 · Taking care of your things and money
Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest. After a year, what will he have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, savings account · What happens: keep, pay, have · To what, where: savings account, interest
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: Ben keeps $50 in a savings account that pays interest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 2 keeps | obj |
| 4 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 $ | nummod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 account | det |
| 7 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 account | compound |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 pays | nsubj |
| 10 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 account | acl:relcl |
| 11 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pays | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Ben | a savings account | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent $=Theme in account=Location | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | a savings account | interest | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=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: After a year, what will he have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 have | obj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | Ben | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A little more than $50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 more | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 5 $ | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 6 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 $ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Twice as much, $100, after one year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 much | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 $ | punct |
| 5 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 3 much | appos |
| 6 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 $ | nummod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 much | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 year | nummod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 much | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Exactly $50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 $ | advmod |
| 2 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 $ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Less than $50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 $ | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 Less | fixed |
| 3 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 $ | nummod |
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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