Test 2 · ★★ · Interest on savings and cash machines

Your mate goes, "5% of £200 is £5, easy." Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: go, be

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Interest on savings and cash machines» 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 mate goes, "5% of £200 is £5, easy."

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	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 %	punct
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 %	nummod
7	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	12 £	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 £	case
9	£	£	SYM	_	7 %	nmod
10	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 £	nummod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 £	cop
12	£	£	SYM	_	3 goes	obl
13	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
15	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 £	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mate					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's £10, because 5% means £5 for every £100

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 £	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 £	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 £	cop
5	£	£	SYM	_	11 means	nsubj
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 means	mark
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 %	nummod
10	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	£	£	SYM	_	11 means	obj
13	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 £	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 £	det
16	£	£	SYM	_	12 £	nmod
17	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot £=Theme for £=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, 5% always means £5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 %	nummod
4	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 means	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	£	£	SYM	_	6 means	obj
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Topic

Option 3

No, it's £50, because 5 × 10 = 50

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 £	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 £	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 £	cop
5	£	£	SYM	_	10 ×	nsubj
6	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ×	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 ×	mark
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 ×	nummod
10	×	×	SYM	_	root	root
11	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 ×	flat
12	=	=	SYM	_	13 50	case
13	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 10	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, it's £205, because you add the 5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 £	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 £	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 £	cop
5	£	£	SYM	_	10 add	obl
6	205	205	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 add	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 add	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 add	nsubj
10	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 5	det
12	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	you	the 5					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Patient

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