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Test 3 · Prices and change at the till

Bloke in the newsagent's: "25p for a Freddo?? Daylight robbery!" ("Daylight robbery" means a price that feels like stealing.) Why did the price go up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Daylight robbery, price · What happens: mean, feel, steal, go up · To what, where: price

This is test 3 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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: Bloke in the newsagent's: "25p for a Freddo??

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 newsagent	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 newsagent	det
4	newsagent	newsagent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bloke	nmod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 newsagent	case
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 p	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 p	punct
8	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 p	nummod
9	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bloke	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 Freddo	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Freddo	det
12	Freddo	Freddo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 p	nmod
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 Bloke	punct

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

Sentence 2: Daylight robbery!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daylight	daylight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 robbery	amod
2	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 robbery	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 robbery	punct

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

Sentence 3: ("Daylight robbery" means a price that feels like stealing.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 robbery	punct
3	Daylight	daylight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 robbery	amod
4	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 robbery	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 price	det
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 feels	nsubj
10	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 price	acl:relcl
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 stealing	mark
12	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 feels	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Daylight robbery	a price					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic
2	feel	present	a price						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	steal	gerund	a price not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 4: Why did the price go up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 go	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past · do-support	the price						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

The options

Option 1

The shop is stealing from him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stealing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stealing	aux
4	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stealing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present · progressive	the shop					from him = he	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Prices slowly rise over the years; that's inflation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rise	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 rise	advmod
3	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 years	det
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rise	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 inflation	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 inflation	det
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 inflation	cop
10	inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Prices				year	slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		that inflation					tree rules

Option 3

Freddos got bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddos	Freddos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Freddos					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The bloke is just bad at maths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 maths	case
7	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bloke			maths		bad property	tree rules

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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