Test 11 · Taxes and the government's budget
The council has £7,500 for potholes this year. Each fix costs £75. A Gen Z neighbour says, "So like, how many is that, it's giving not enough." ("It's giving" means it looks like.) How many can be fixed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: council, fix, Z neighbour, that, neighbour, giving · What happens: have, cost, say, be, give, mean · To what, where: many · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» 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 council has £7,500 for potholes this year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 council | det |
| 2 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | 7,500 | 7,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 potholes | case |
| 7 | potholes | pothole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 £ | nmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the council | year | for potholes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient |
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: Each fix costs £75.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 fix | det |
| 2 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 costs | nsubj |
| 3 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 costs | obj |
| 5 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 costs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | each fix | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
Sentence 3: A Gen Z neighbour says, "So like, how many is that, it's giving not enough."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 neighbour | det |
| 2 | Gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Z | compound |
| 3 | Z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neighbour | compound |
| 4 | neighbour | neighbour | 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 | _ | 12 many | punct |
| 8 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 12 many | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 many | cop |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 many | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 giving | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 giving | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 giving | aux |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 says | parataxis |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 enough | advmod |
| 20 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 18 giving | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 giving | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 giving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Z neighbour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | many property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · progressive | neighbour | enough property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Sentence 4: ("It's giving" means it looks like.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 giving | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 giving | aux |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | csubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 looks | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · progressive | fix | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | giving | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | present | fix | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 5: How many can be fixed?
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 | 5 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fixed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fixed | aux:pass |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fixed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | can · passive | many | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
75
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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