Test 6 · ★★ · The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss
Sam keeps a notebook: "Lemons £2, sugar £1, cups £2 — oh, and 50p for a sign — takings £12." What's the profit now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, profit · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: notebook
This is test 6 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Sam keeps a notebook: "Lemons £2, sugar £1, cups £2 — oh, and 50p for a sign — takings £12."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 notebook | det |
| 4 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lemons | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lemons | punct |
| 7 | Lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 notebook | appos |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 Lemons | nmod |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sugar | punct |
| 11 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lemons | conj |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 11 sugar | nmod |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cups | punct |
| 15 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Lemons | conj |
| 16 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 cups | acl:relcl |
| 17 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 £ | nummod |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 oh | punct |
| 19 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 keeps | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 p | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 p | cc |
| 22 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 p | nummod |
| 23 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sign | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sign | det |
| 26 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 p | nmod |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 takings | punct |
| 28 | takings | taking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 p | conj |
| 29 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 28 takings | nmod |
| 30 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 £ | nummod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Sam | a notebook | 50 p for a sign and takings obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=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: What's the profit now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 profit | det |
| 4 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 What | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the profit | now | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
£6.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 6.50 | 6.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£5.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5.50 | 5.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£7.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7.50 | 7.50 | 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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