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Test 4 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

Josh says, "My bracelets cost me £2 and I sold 10 for a quid each, so I made a tenner." ("Quid" means a pound.) What's the real profit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, bracelets, Quid, real profit · What happens: say, cost, sell, make, mean, be · To what, where: Josh, 10, tenner, pound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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: Josh says, "My bracelets cost me £2 and I sold 10 for a quid each, so I made a tenner."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cost	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cost	punct
5	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bracelets	nmod:poss
6	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cost	nsubj
7	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cost	iobj
9	£	£	SYM	_	7 cost	obj
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 £	nummod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sold	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sold	nsubj
13	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cost	conj
14	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 sold	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 quid	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 quid	det
17	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sold	obl
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sold	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 made	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tenner	det
24	tenner	tenner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Josh						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cost in a quote	present	My bracelets		Josh				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary £=Value
3	sell in a quote	past	Josh	10				for a quid	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent 10=Recipient each=Theme for quid=Asset
4	make in a quote	past	Josh	a tenner					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tenner=Product

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: ("Quid" means a pound.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Quid	punct
3	Quid	Quid	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Quid	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pound	det
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

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

Sentence 3: What's the real profit?

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	5 profit	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 profit	amod
5	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real profit						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

£2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£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 3

£10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4 · ✓ 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.

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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