Test 6 · ★ · The weekly shop and a family budget
A girl from Newcastle says, "Me mam's canny with money, she gets the yellow-sticker bread for 30p." ("Canny" means clever or good.) If it's normally £1.20, how much does she save on one loaf?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, mam, Canny · What happens: say, get, mean, save · To what, where: yellow sticker bread, one loaf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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: A girl from Newcastle says, "Me mam's canny with money, she gets the yellow-sticker bread for 30p."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Newcastle | case |
| 4 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 canny | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 canny | punct |
| 8 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 mam | compound |
| 9 | mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 canny | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mam | case |
| 11 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 money | case |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 canny | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gets | nsubj |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bread | det |
| 18 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bread | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 yellow | punct |
| 20 | sticker | sticker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | compound |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gets | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 p | case |
| 23 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 p | nummod |
| 24 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a girl from Newcastle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | mam | the yellow sticker bread | for 30 p | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme for p=Source |
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: ("Canny" means clever or good.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Canny | punct |
| 3 | Canny | Canny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Canny | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 good | cc |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clever | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Canny | clever property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: If it's normally £1.20, how much does she save on one loaf?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 £ | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 £ | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 £ | cop |
| 4 | normally | normally | ADV | _ | 5 £ | advmod |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 6 | 1.20 | 1.20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 save | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 save | advmod |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 save | aux |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 save | nsubj |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 £ | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 loaf | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 loaf | nummod |
| 15 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 £ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · do-support | Canny | one loaf | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on loaf=Source |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
30p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | 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
90p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 | 90 | 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
80p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 | 80 | 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 4
£1.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1.50 | 1.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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