Test 7 · ★ · The weekly shop and a family budget
Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either." Is £8 a week a big saving over a whole year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, ai · What happens: say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 £ | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 £ | punct |
| 7 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 says | obl |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 £ | nummod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ai | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ai | compound |
| 11 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 £ | nmod |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 nothing | advmod |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 ai | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 much | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 much | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 much | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 much | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 20 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 much | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 much | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 much | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ollie's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | ai | either, much property | 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: Is £8 a week a big saving over a whole year?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 £ | cop |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 £ | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 saving | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saving | amod |
| 8 | saving | saving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 £ | appos |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 year | amod |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saving | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 £ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, it's only £80 over a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 £ | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 £ | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 £ | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 £ | advmod |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 7 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, it's only £52 over a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 £ | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 £ | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 £ | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 £ | advmod |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 7 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, it's £8,000 over a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 £ | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 £ | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 £ | cop |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 6 | 8,000 | 8,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 £ | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, it's £416 over 52 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 weeks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 £ | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 £ | cop |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 weeks | nsubj |
| 6 | 416 | 416 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 52 | advmod |
| 8 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 weeks | nummod |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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