Test 6 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

What would happen if the cake stall had to buy the 40 cakes at 30p each?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cake stall · What happens: happen, have, buy · To what, where: 40 cakes, 30 p

This is test 6 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

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 had	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stall	det
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stall	compound
7	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 buy	mark
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cakes	det
12	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 cakes	nummod
13	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 buy	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 p	case
15	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 p	nummod
16	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buy	obl
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 p	nmod:unmarked
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the cake stall			tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	the cake stall not said here	the 40 cakes	30 p each	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cake=Theme at p=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Profit would rise from £20 to £32

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	from	from	ADP	_	5 £	case
5	£	£	SYM	_	3 rise	obl
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 £	case
8	£	£	SYM	_	3 rise	obl
9	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	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 PP.destination»: agent=Theme from £=Initial_Location to £=Destination

Option 2

They would lose £12

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	£	£	SYM	_	3 lose	obj
5	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Profit would fall from £20 to £8

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	from	from	ADP	_	5 £	case
5	£	£	SYM	_	3 fall	obl
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 £	case
8	£	£	SYM	_	3 fall	obl
9	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod

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

Option 4

Profit would stay at £20

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	20	20	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

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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