Test 8 · Adverts and how they work on you
Kian's sister says the YouTuber's code gives "10% off, she gets paid." The product is £30. What do you pay with the code?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, code, YouTuber, you · What happens: say, give, get, pay, code · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» 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: Kian's sister says the YouTuber's code gives "10% off, she gets paid."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kian | Kian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kian | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 YouTuber | det |
| 6 | YouTuber | YouTuber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 code | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 YouTuber | case |
| 8 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 % | punct |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 % | nummod |
| 12 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADV | _ | 12 % | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gets | nsubj |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 17 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gets | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kian's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | present | the YouTuber's code | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | code | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | participle | code not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | code | the YouTuber | nom code «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 product is £30.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 product | det |
| 2 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 £ | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 £ | cop |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 £ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What do you pay with the code?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pay | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 code | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 code | det |
| 7 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · do-support | you | with the code | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£29
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
£27
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | 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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