Test 12 · ★★★ · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar
A lorry uses 100 litres and fuel rises 20p a litre. The firm makes 10 such trips a week. How much more a week?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lorry, fuel, firm · What happens: use, rise, make · To what, where: 100 litres, 20 p, 10 such trips
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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: A lorry uses 100 litres and fuel rises 20p a litre.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lorry | det |
| 2 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 litres | nummod |
| 5 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rises | cc |
| 7 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rises | nsubj |
| 8 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uses | conj |
| 9 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 p | nummod |
| 10 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rises | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 litre | det |
| 12 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rises | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a lorry | 100 litres | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rise | present | fuel | 20 p | tree rules |
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 firm makes 10 such trips a week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 firm | det |
| 2 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 trips | nummod |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trips | amod |
| 6 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trips | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the firm | 10 such trips a week | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |
Sentence 3: How much more a week?
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 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£2,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£200
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£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.
Option 4
£120
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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