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Test 8 · When money is tight: "we can't afford it"

Ellie's mum says, "I'll find the £30, but no takeaway for a bit." The takeaway is £15 a week. How many weeks without it pay for the trip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, many weeks · What happens: say, find, pay · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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: Ellie's mum says, "I'll find the £30, but no takeaway for a bit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ellie	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 £	det
11	£	£	SYM	_	9 find	obj
12	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 £	nummod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 takeaway	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 takeaway	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 takeaway	det
16	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 bit	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bit	det
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takeaway	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ellie's mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find in a quote	future	Ellie's mum = mum						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Topic

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: The takeaway is £15 a week.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 takeaway	det
2	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 £	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 £	cop
4	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
5	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 £	nmod:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 £	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: How many weeks without it pay for the trip?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weeks	amod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pay	nsubj
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 weeks	nmod
6	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 trip	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trip	det
9	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	many weeks without takeaway					for the trip	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trip=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

3 weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

30 weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

2 weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

15 weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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