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Test 6 · ★★★ · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

A Gen Alpha kid says, "My fiver's lowkey mid now, it buys less." ("Mid" means not great.) Sweets went from 50p to 55p. How many fewer does £5 buy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alpha kid, lowkey, Mid, Sweets, many · What happens: say, buy, mean, go, do · To what, where: 50 p, 5 buy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 Gen Alpha kid says, "My fiver's lowkey mid now, it buys less."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kid	det
2	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Alpha	compound
3	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kid	compound
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lowkey	punct
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fiver	nmod:poss
9	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lowkey	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 fiver	case
11	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buys	nsubj
12	mid	mid	X	_	11 lowkey	parataxis
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 mid	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mid	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 buys	nsubj
16	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
17	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 buys	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Alpha kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	buy in a quote	present	My fiver's lowkey					less property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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: ("Mid" means not great.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mid	punct
3	Mid	Mid	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Mid	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 great	advmod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Mid					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Sweets went from 50p to 55p.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 p	case
4	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 p	nummod
5	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 p	case
7	55	55	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 p	nummod
8	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Sweets			50 p		to 55 p	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from p=Initial_Location to p=Destination

Sentence 4: How many fewer does £5 buy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 does	nsubj
3	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 many	conj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	6 5	compound
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 buy	nummod
7	buy	buy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many	5 buy					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buy=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

2 fewer: 8 instead of 10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 fewer	nummod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 8	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 8	punct
4	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 10	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 8	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

5 fewer: 5 instead of 10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 fewer	nummod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 5	punct
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 fewer	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 10	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 5	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

None fewer: still 10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 None	amod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 10	punct
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 10	advmod
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 None	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

1 fewer: 9 instead of 10

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 fewer	nummod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 9	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 9	punct
4	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 10	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 9	nmod

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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