Test 9 · Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout
Ellie's mum asks for a price match on a £25 kettle. The other shop sells it for £5 less. What does she pay if they agree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, other shop, shop, they · What happens: ask, sell, pay, agree · To what, where: match
This is test 9 of lesson 14 «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» 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: Ellie's mum asks for a price match on a £25 kettle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ellie | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 match | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 match | det |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 match | compound |
| 8 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 kettle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kettle | det |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 kettle | compound |
| 12 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 match | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Ellie's mum | for a price match on a £ kettle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: The other shop sells it for £5 less.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shop | amod |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sells | nsubj |
| 4 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sells | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 £ | case |
| 7 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 less | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 £ | nummod |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sells | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | the other shop | match | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Sentence 3: What does she pay if they agree?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pay | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 agree | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 agree | nsubj |
| 7 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · do-support | shop | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | present | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | 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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