Test 4 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything
Lily-Rose: «Mum wanted half in savings and I only saved £20». How much less than half did she save?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, I · What happens: want, save · To what, where: half, savings
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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: Lily-Rose: «Mum wanted half in savings and I only saved £20».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rose | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rose | punct |
| 3 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 6 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Rose | acl:relcl |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 wanted | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 savings | case |
| 10 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 wanted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saved | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saved | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 saved | advmod |
| 14 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | conj |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 saved | obj |
| 16 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 saved | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | past | Mum | half | savings | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot half=Theme | |||
| 2 | save in a quote | past | I | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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: How much less than half did she 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 | ADV | _ | 3 less | advmod |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 save | mark |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 8 save | det:predet |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 save | aux |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 save | nsubj |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 less | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 less | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · do-support | Mum | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£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 2
£10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | 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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