Test 4 · Prices and change at the till
Archie goes "75p, sweets 20p, so I get 4, easy." What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Archie, I · What happens: go, get, be · To what, where: 75 p, 4
This is test 4 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: Archie goes "75p, sweets 20p, so I get 4, easy."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archie | Archie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 p | punct |
| 4 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 p | nummod |
| 5 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweets | punct |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 p | conj |
| 8 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 p | nummod |
| 9 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweets | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 14 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 easy | punct |
| 16 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Archie | 75 p and sweets 20 p | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | I | 4 | easy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 4=Stimulus |
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: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He can actually buy 5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | aux |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 4 buy | advmod |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | can | He | 5 | actually property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
4 sweets cost 80p, which is 5p more than he has
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sweets | nummod |
| 2 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 p | nummod |
| 5 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 p | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 p | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 p | cop |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 p | nummod |
| 10 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 p | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 cost | obj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 has | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cost | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | 4 sweets | 80 p and 5 p | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme p=Beneficiary more=Value | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | 80 p and 5 p | 5 p | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nothing, 4 sweets is right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 right | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweets | punct |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 sweets | nummod |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | right property | tree rules |
Option 4
He can only buy 2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 buy | advmod |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | can | He | 2 | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Theme |
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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