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Test 10 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

Tyrone's mom: «no takeout for a month». They used to get takeout every Friday at $20 a time. A month has 4 Fridays. How much do they save?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: They, month, Fridays · What happens: use, get, have, save · To what, where: takeout, 4 Fridays, much

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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: Tyrone's mom: «no takeout for a month».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyrone	Tyrone	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mom	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tyrone	case
3	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 takeout	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 takeout	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 takeout	det
7	takeout	takeout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mom	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 month	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takeout	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 takeout	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mom	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: They used to get takeout every Friday at $20 a time.

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
5	takeout	takeout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Friday	det
7	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 $	case
9	$	$	SYM	_	4 get	obl
10	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 $	nummod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 $	nmod:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	They						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	to-infinitive	They not said here	takeout			friday		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent takeout=Theme at $=Asset

Sentence 3: A month has 4 Fridays.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Fridays	nummod
5	Fridays	friday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a month	4 Fridays					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friday=Patient

Sentence 4: How much do they save?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 save	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	nsubj
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · do-support	Fridays = friday	much					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

$80

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
2	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 $	nummod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

$20

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
2	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 $	nummod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

$40

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
2	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 $	nummod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

$24

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	$	$	SYM	_	root	root
2	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 $	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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