Test 10 · When money is tight: "we can't afford it"
Sami's mum got second-hand shoes for £10 instead of £40 — no wait, they were £12 — instead of £40. How much did she save?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: get, save · To what, where: hand shoes, much
This is test 10 of lesson 23 «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» 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: Sami's mum got second-hand shoes for £10 instead of £40 — no wait, they were £12 — instead of £40.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sami | Sami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sami | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 hand | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 second | punct |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoes | compound |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 £ | case |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 shoes | nmod |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 14 £ | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 £ | nmod |
| 15 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 wait | det |
| 18 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 £ | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 £ | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 £ | cop |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 got | obl |
| 23 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 £ | punct |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 27 £ | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 22 £ | conj |
| 28 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 £ | nummod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Sami's mum | hand shoes | no wait obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme for £=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: How much did she save?
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 | 5 save | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 save | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 save | nsubj |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · do-support | mum | much | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£28
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£52
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | 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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