Test 10 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things
Your little sister says, "Kai's £20 a month is tiny, it'll never be anything." What's true after 10 years?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, it · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» 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: Your little sister says, "Kai's £20 a month is tiny, it'll never be anything."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tiny | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 £ | punct |
| 7 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 £ | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Kai | case |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 tiny | nsubj |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 month | det |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 £ | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tiny | cop |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 anything | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 anything | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 anything | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 anything | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 anything | cop |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 tiny | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 anything | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 anything | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your little sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | tiny property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | future | it | anything | 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: What's true after 10 years?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | year | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It's £20, because savings don't grow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 £ | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 £ | cop |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 grow | mark |
| 7 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 grow | advmod |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 £ | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | present · do-support | savings | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's £2,400, plus some interest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 £ | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 £ | cop |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 2,400 | 2,400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 interest | punct |
| 6 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 8 interest | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 interest | det |
| 8 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 £ | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
It's only about £200 after 10 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 £ | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 £ | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 £ | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 £ | advmod |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 6 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 £ | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
It's a full £24,000 after 10 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 £ | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 £ | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 £ | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 £ | amod |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 6 | 24,000 | 24000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 £ | nmod |
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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