Test 11 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales
Juice: 500 ml for 90p or 1 litre for £1.60. Which is cheaper per litre?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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: Juice: 500 ml for 90p or 1 litre for £1.60.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 litre | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 ml | punct |
| 3 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 ml | nummod |
| 4 | ml | ml | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 litre | compound |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 p | case |
| 6 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 p | nummod |
| 7 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ml | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 1 | cc |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 p | conj |
| 10 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 £ | case |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 litre | nmod |
| 13 | 1.60 | 1.60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 litre | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which is cheaper per litre?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cheaper | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheaper | cop |
| 3 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | per | per | ADP | _ | 5 litre | case |
| 5 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheaper | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheaper | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | per litre; cheap property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The 1 litre bottle (£1.60 against £1.80)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 litre | nummod |
| 3 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | compound |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 £ | punct |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 7 | 1.60 | 1.60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 £ | case |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 £ | nmod |
| 10 | 1.80 | 1.80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 £ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The 500 ml bottle (90p against £1.60)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 ml | nummod |
| 3 | ml | ml | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | compound |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 p | punct |
| 6 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 p | nummod |
| 7 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | appos |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 £ | case |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 p | nmod |
| 10 | 1.60 | 1.60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 p | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The 500 ml bottle (£1.80 a litre against £1.60)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 ml | nummod |
| 3 | ml | ml | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | compound |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 £ | punct |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 7 | 1.80 | 1.80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 litre | det |
| 9 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nmod |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 £ | case |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 litre | nmod |
| 12 | 1.60 | 1.60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 £ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
They are exactly the same
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 | 5 same | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | exactly, same 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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