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Test 10 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

Mila's mum says a £0.99 price is a trick. What's the trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, £ price, trick · What happens: say, be · To what, where: trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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: Mila's mum says a £0.99 price is a trick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mila	Mila	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mila	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 price	det
6	£	£	SYM	_	8 price	compound
7	0.99	0.99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trick	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trick	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mila's mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a £ price	a trick					tree rules

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: What's the trick?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the trick						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It feels much cheaper than £1 but is only 1p less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 cheaper	advmod
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 feels	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 £	case
6	£	£	SYM	_	4 cheaper	obl
7	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 p	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 p	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 p	advmod
11	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 p	nummod
12	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feels	conj
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 p	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It					cheap property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present		1 p					tree rules

Option 2

It means the item is nearly free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 item	det
4	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 free	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 free	cop
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 free	advmod
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the item					free, nearly property	tree rules

Option 3

It is the price in another country's money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 price	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 price	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 money	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 country	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 price	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the price		another country's money			tree rules

Option 4

It means the shop gives 99p back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shop	det
4	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	99	99	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 p	nummod
7	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give back	present	the shop	99 p					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent p=Theme

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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