Test 3 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things
Dad says the holiday fund gets £100 a month. "Nah, let's do £150," says Mum. How many months now for £1,200?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, holiday fund, you, 's, Mum · What happens: say, get, let, do · To what, where: 's · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Dad says the holiday fund gets £100 a month. "
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fund | det |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fund | compound |
| 5 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 gets | obj |
| 8 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 £ | nummod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 month | det |
| 10 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present | the holiday fund | month | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus |
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: Nah, let's do £150," says Mum.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 11 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | 's not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How many months now for £1,200?
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 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 £ | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 £ | case |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 months | appos |
| 7 | 1,200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 months | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
16 months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
8 months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12 months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10 months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | 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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