Test 8 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things
Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July." If July is £900, what does January cost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: January · What happens: cost
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivy | Ivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ivy | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Book | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Book | punct |
| 6 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 January | case |
| 8 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Book | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 price | punct |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 price | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 price | det |
| 12 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 July | case |
| 14 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 price | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 price | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 price | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: If July is £900, what does January cost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 £ | mark |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | 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 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cost | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 cost | obj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cost | aux |
| 9 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cost | nsubj |
| 10 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 £ | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 £ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present · do-support | January | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£900
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£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 3 · ✓ the right answer
£450
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 450 | 450 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£1,800
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1,800 | 1,800 | 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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