Test 2 · ★★ · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss

What would happen if Sam and Ava charged £5 a cup?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, charge

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 charged	mark
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 charged	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Ava	cc
7	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sam	conj
8	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	£	£	SYM	_	8 charged	obj
10	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 £	nummod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cup	det
12	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 £	nmod:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	charge a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam and Ava						vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location £=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They'd make £100 for sure

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	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	£	£	SYM	_	3 make	obj
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sure	case
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	obl

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

Option 2

Everybody would buy more, because it's fancier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 buy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 buy	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fancier	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fancier	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fancier	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fancier	cop
9	fancier	fancier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	would	Everybody	more					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	is a	present	it	fancier					tree rules

Option 3

The lemons would get cheaper to buy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lemons	det
2	lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cheaper	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the lemons					cheap property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	buy	to-infinitive	the lemons not said here						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hardly anyone would buy, and they could take less money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 buy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 buy	conj
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 money	amod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	would	anyone					hardly property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	take	could	they	less money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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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