Test 11 · ★★ · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

What would happen to the profit if they sold 20 cups at 50p but the costs went up to £8?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, costs · What happens: happen, sell, go up · To what, where: 20 cups, 50 p

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 31 «The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 profit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 profit	det
6	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 sold	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sold	nsubj
9	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 cups	nummod
11	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 p	case
13	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 p	nummod
14	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sold	obl
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 costs	det
17	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sold	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 went	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 £	case
21	£	£	SYM	_	18 went	obl
22	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 £	nummod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				to the profit	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sell a condition, not said to happen	past	they	20 cups	50 p		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at p=Asset
3	go up	past	the costs				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Profit would stay at £5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 £	case
5	£	£	SYM	_	3 stay	obl
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Profit						vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at £=Location

Option 2

They would make a loss of £8

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 loss	det
5	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 £	case
7	£	£	SYM	_	5 loss	nmod
8	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	They	a loss					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loss=Product

Option 3

Profit would rise to £18

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	aux
3	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 £	case
5	£	£	SYM	_	3 rise	obl
6	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	Profit						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to £=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Profit would fall to £2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 £	case
5	£	£	SYM	_	3 fall	obl
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Profit						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to £=Theme

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