Test 5 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things
A Scottish dad says, "Camping in the Highlands, aye, it'll be dreich, but it's a quarter of the price of Spain." ("Dreich" means grey and rainy.) Spain is £2,000. What does the camping cost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scottish dad, Camping, Dreich, Spain · What happens: say, be, mean, do · To what, where: quarter, grey, £ 2,000, camping cost · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: A Scottish dad says, "Camping in the Highlands, aye, it'll be dreich, but it's a quarter of the price of Spain."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dad | det |
| 2 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dad | amod |
| 3 | dad | dad | 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 Camping | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Camping | punct |
| 7 | Camping | camping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Highlands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Highlands | det |
| 10 | Highlands | Highland | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Camping | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreich | punct |
| 12 | aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 17 dreich | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreich | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dreich | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dreich | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dreich | cop |
| 17 | dreich | dreich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 quarter | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 quarter | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 quarter | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 quarter | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 quarter | det |
| 23 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dreich | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 price | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 price | det |
| 26 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 quarter | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Spain | case |
| 28 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 price | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreich | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreich | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Scottish dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | Camping | dreich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Camping | a quarter | of the price of Spain | 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: ("Dreich" means grey and rainy.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dreich | punct |
| 3 | Dreich | Dreich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dreich | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rainy | cc |
| 8 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grey | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Dreich | grey | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic |
Sentence 3: Spain is £2,000.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2,000 | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 2,000 | cop |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 2,000 | compound |
| 4 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 2,000 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Spain | £ 2,000 | tree rules |
Sentence 4: What does the camping cost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cost | det |
| 4 | camping | camping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cost | compound |
| 5 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the camping cost | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£400
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£250
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
£500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£1,500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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