Test 9 · ★★ · Interest on savings and cash machines
Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%." She puts in £300 — no, £200. How much interest after a year?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, it · What happens: say, lock, pay, put in · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Nina's mum says, "Locked for a year, but it pays 4%."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nina | Nina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nina | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | 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 Locked | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Locked | punct |
| 7 | Locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Locked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pays | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 pays | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pays | nsubj |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 15 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 % | nummod |
| 16 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 14 pays | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 % | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 % | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Nina's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lock in a quote | participle | year | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | present | it | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Asset |
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: She puts in £300 — no, £200.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 puts | nsubj |
| 2 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 puts | compound:prt |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 puts | obj |
| 5 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 £ | punct |
| 7 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 £ | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 no | punct |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 puts | obl |
| 10 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in | present | mum | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent £=Goal |
Sentence 3: How much interest after a year?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 interest | amod |
| 3 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 interest | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 interest | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£204
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 204 | 204 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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