Test 5 · ★ · Debt, loans, credit cards and interest
Lucy's brother says, "Pay me £6 back — nah, call it £7 — or I'm telling Mum!" She borrowed £5. How much extra does he want now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Lucy, much extra · What happens: say, pay, call, tell, borrow, want · To what, where: brother, it, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 24 «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» 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: Lucy's brother says, "Pay me £6 back — nah, call it £7 — or I'm telling Mum!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lucy | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | 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 Pay | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pay | punct |
| 7 | Pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Pay | iobj |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 Pay | obj |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 Pay | advmod |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 13 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 15 call | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nah | punct |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 Pay | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 call | obj |
| 17 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 call | obj |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 £ | nummod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 telling | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 telling | nsubj |
| 22 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 telling | aux |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 says | parataxis |
| 24 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 telling | iobj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Lucy's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | infinitive | Lucy's brother = brother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient £=Asset | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | infinitive | it | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme £=Result | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | Lucy's brother = brother | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
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: She borrowed £5.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 borrowed | obj |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 borrowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | Lucy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
Sentence 3: How much extra does he want now?
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 | 3 extra | amod |
| 3 | extra | extra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 want | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | much extra | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£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.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 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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