Test 10 · ★ · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform
Six kids bring cupcakes and Amara brings a pack of 20 biscuits. Cupcakes sell at 50p and biscuits at 10p. If six cupcakes and all the biscuits sell, which raised more?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Six kids, Amara, Cupcakes, six cupcakes · What happens: bring, sell, raise · To what, where: cupcakes, pack, 50 p, more
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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: Six kids bring cupcakes and Amara brings a pack of 20 biscuits.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kids | nummod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cupcakes | cupcake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brings | cc |
| 6 | Amara | Amara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | nsubj |
| 7 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pack | det |
| 9 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 biscuits | case |
| 11 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 biscuits | nummod |
| 12 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pack | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Six kids | cupcakes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cupcake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | Amara | a pack of 20 biscuits | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pack=Theme |
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: Cupcakes sell at 50p and biscuits at 10p.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cupcakes | cupcake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 p | case |
| 4 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 p | nummod |
| 5 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sell | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 biscuits | cc |
| 7 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 p | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 p | case |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 p | nummod |
| 10 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sell | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | Cupcakes | 50 p and biscuits | at 10 p | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at p=Asset |
Sentence 3: If six cupcakes and all the biscuits sell, which raised more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 sell | mark |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 cupcakes | nummod |
| 3 | cupcakes | cupcake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sell | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 biscuits | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 biscuits | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 biscuits | det |
| 7 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cupcakes | conj |
| 8 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 raised | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sell | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 raised | nsubj |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 raised | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell a condition, not said to happen | present | six cupcakes and all biscuits | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | raise | past | more | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The biscuits, by a pound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 biscuits | det |
| 2 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pound | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 pound | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pound | det |
| 6 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 biscuits | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
They raised exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 raised | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | They | same property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The biscuits, by two pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 biscuits | det |
| 2 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pounds | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 pounds | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pounds | nummod |
| 6 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 biscuits | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The six cupcakes, by a pound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cupcakes | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 cupcakes | nummod |
| 3 | cupcakes | cupcake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pound | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pound | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pound | det |
| 7 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cupcakes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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