Test 5 · ★★★ · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

What would happen if prices doubled every month for 5 months, starting with a £1 loaf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prices · What happens: happen, double, start

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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

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	_	6 doubled	mark
5	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doubled	nsubj
6	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doubled	obl:unmarked
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 months	case
10	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 months	nummod
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doubled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 starting	punct
13	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 loaf	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 loaf	det
16	£	£	SYM	_	18 loaf	compound
17	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 £	nummod
18	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starting	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	double a condition, not said to happen	past	prices	month		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	start	gerund			with a £ loaf	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with loaf=Subeventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

The loaf would cost £32

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 cost	obj
6	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	the loaf						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value

Option 2

The loaf would cost £5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 cost	obj
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	the loaf						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value

Option 3

The loaf would cost £16

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 cost	obj
6	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	the loaf						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value

Option 4

The loaf would cost £10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 cost	obj
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	the loaf						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value

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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