Test 8 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales
Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big supermarket. How much does he save at the supermarket?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aidan · What happens: need, save · To what, where: 6 cans, much, supermarket
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big supermarket.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aidan | Aidan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 cans | nummod |
| 4 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 needs | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 £ | punct |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 cans | nmod |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 £ | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shop | det |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shop | compound |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 p | punct |
| 14 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 p | nummod |
| 15 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cans | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 supermarket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 supermarket | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 supermarket | amod |
| 19 | supermarket | supermarket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 p | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 needs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Aidan | 6 cans and 60 p at the big supermarket | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot can=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.
Sentence 2: How much does he save at the supermarket?
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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 supermarket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 supermarket | det |
| 8 | supermarket | supermarket | 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 | Aidan | much | the supermarket | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent much=Theme at supermarket=Asset |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
40p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£6.00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 6.00 | 6.00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£3.60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 3.60 | 3.60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£2.40
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2.40 | 2.40 | 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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