Test 5 · ★ · Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles

What would happen if shops put "3 for 2" on milk that goes off in 2 days, and a small family bought it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: milk, small family · What happens: happen, put, go off, buy · To what, where: shops, milk

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Offers: 3 for 2, buy one get one free, bundles» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	nsubj:pass
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 3	punct
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 put	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 2	case
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 3	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 3	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 milk	case
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 goes	nsubj
15	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 milk	acl:relcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 goes	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
18	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 goes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bought	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 family	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 family	amod
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bought	nsubj
25	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bought	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		shops	milk		3 for 2 obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on milk=Destination
3	go off	present	milk			day		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	buy	past	a small family	milk				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They'd save twice as much money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 save	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 save	aux
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 save	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 money	amod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	would	They	much money				twice property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2

They'd get the third pint for free forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pint	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 pint	amod
6	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 free	case
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	obl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They	the third pint				for free; forever property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pint=Theme for free=Source

Option 3

The milk would last longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 milk	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 last	aux
4	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	the milk					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They'd likely throw some away, so no real saving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 throw	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saving	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 saving	advmod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 saving	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saving	amod
11	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	would	They	some				no real saving obl; away, likely property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme

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