Test 6 · Prices and change at the till
Callum's mate: "in the shop over the road it's £3, bro." Callum's buying 2. How much does he save over the road?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Callum · What happens: buy, save · To what, where: much, road
This is test 6 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: Callum's mate: "in the shop over the road it's £3, bro."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Callum | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 shop | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shop | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shop | det |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shop | nmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 £ | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 £ | cop |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 11 road | nmod |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bro | punct |
| 17 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shop | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Callum's buying 2.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 buying | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Callum | case |
| 3 | buying | buying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 buying | flat |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | Callum | nom buying «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Sentence 3: How much does he save over the road?
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 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 save | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 save | nsubj |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · do-support | Callum | much | the road | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 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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