Test 10 · Taking without paying: the consequences
Dad: "When people nick stuff, we all pay a bit more." If a shop loses £50 a week and has 500 customers, how much extra each?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, we, shop · What happens: nick, pay, lose, have · To what, where: stuff, more, 500 customers
This is test 10 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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: Dad: "When people nick stuff, we all pay a bit more."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 nick | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nick | punct |
| 4 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 nick | advmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nick | nsubj |
| 6 | nick | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dad | parataxis |
| 7 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nick | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 pay | advmod |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nick | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 more | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick in a quote | present | people | stuff | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | present | we | more | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset |
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: If a shop loses £50 a week and has 500 customers, how much extra each?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 loses | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loses | nsubj |
| 4 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 loses | obj |
| 6 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loses | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loses | conj |
| 11 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 customers | nummod |
| 12 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 extra | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 extra | amod |
| 16 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 customers | acl |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 extra | appos |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 loses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | a shop | week | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a shop not said here | 500 customers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
50p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | 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 · ✓ the right answer
10p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | 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 3
£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 4
1p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 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.
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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