Test 12 · Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax
Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750." How much is that a year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, wait · What happens: say, go up, be · To what, where: £ 750, year · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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: Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 month | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 month | punct |
| 5 | Rent | Rent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 month | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Rent | case |
| 7 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 month | compound |
| 8 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 £ | nummod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 month | det |
| 10 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 wait | det |
| 13 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 month | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 750 | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 750 | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 750 | cop |
| 21 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 22 750 | compound |
| 22 | 750 | 750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 says | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go up in a quote | past | wait | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | wait | £ 750 | 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: How much is that a year?
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 | 6 year | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 year | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 year | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a year | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£8,400
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 8,400 | 8,400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£8,750
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 8,750 | 8,750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£7,500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7,500 | 7,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£9,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 9,000 | 9,000 | 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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