Test 9 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss
The tuck shop made £8 profit. The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids. How much each?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tuck shop, class, 4 kids · What happens: make, vote, split, run · To what, where: £ 8 profit, wait, class
This is test 9 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: The tuck shop made £8 profit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 2 | tuck | tuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | compound |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shop | acl |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 profit | compound |
| 6 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 profit | nummod |
| 7 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the tuck shop not said here | £ 8 profit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=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: The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 class | det |
| 2 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 votes | nsubj |
| 3 | votes | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 votes | advcl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 kids | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kids | det |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 kids | nummod |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 split | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kids | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 wait | cc |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wait | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 wait | det |
| 17 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 split | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kids | punct |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 kids | case |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 kids | nummod |
| 21 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 split | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 votes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | present | the class | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | split | infinitive | the class not said here | no wait | between the 4 kids; between 8 kids | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | past | the 4 kids | class | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
Sentence 3: How much each?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | advmod |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 each | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£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.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
£1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£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.
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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