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Test 5 · ★★★ · Regret, silly buys and peer pressure

Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad." Finn spent £3 + £7. How much would he have saved by buying the £7 car first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, Finn · What happens: buy, spend, save · To what, where: cheap, much, £ car

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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: Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Finn	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buy	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 buy	punct
9	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 buy	conj
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 buy	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lad	punct
12	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buy	vocative
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy in a quote	infinitive	Finn's grandad	cheap					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheap=Theme
2	buy in a quote	infinitive	Finn's grandad not said here					lad vocative; twice property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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: Finn spent £3 + £7.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	£	£	SYM	_	2 spent	obj
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 £	nummod
5	+	+	SYM	_	6 £	cc
6	£	£	SYM	_	3 £	conj
7	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Finn						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset

Sentence 3: How much would he have saved by buying the £7 car first?

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	6 saved	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 saved	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saved	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 saved	aux
6	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 buying	mark
8	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saved	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
10	£	£	SYM	_	12 car	compound
11	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buying	obj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 buying	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 saved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	would · perfect · passive		much					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	buy	gerund		the £ car				first property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

£7

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

£3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£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.

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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