Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★

★★★ Callum from Glasgow: "Wee bag's 200 g for 90p, big bag's 500 g for £2.40, the big one's aye cheaper." Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Glasgow · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 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: ★★★ Callum from Glasgow: "Wee bag's 200 g for 90p, big bag's 500 g for £2.40, the big one's aye cheaper."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Callum	case
4	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Glasgow	case
6	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 g	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 g	punct
9	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bag	amod
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 g	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 bag	case
12	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 g	nummod
13	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 p	case
15	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 p	nummod
16	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 g	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bag	punct
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bag	amod
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 g	conj
20	's	's	PART	_	19 bag	case
21	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 g	nummod
22	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 g	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 £	case
24	£	£	SYM	_	22 g	nmod
25	2.40	2.40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 £	nummod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 aye	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 aye	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 one	case
31	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 g	conj
32	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 aye	amod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 g	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 g	punct

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

Sentence 2: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Glasgow					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes: big bags are always the cheaper ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 ones	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ones	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bags	amod
4	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ones	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ones	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 ones	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ones	det
8	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	big bags	the cheaper ones				always property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes: the big bag is cheaper at 45p per 100 g

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 cheaper	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bag	amod
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cheaper	cop
7	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 p	case
9	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 p	nummod
10	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	obl
11	per	per	ADP	_	13 g	case
12	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 g	nummod
13	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 p	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the big bag			45 p per 100 g		cheap property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No: the wee bag is 45p per 100 g, the big one 48p

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 p	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 p	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bag	amod
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 p	cop
7	45	45	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 p	nummod
8	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 p	compound
9	per	per	ADP	_	11 g	case
10	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 g	nummod
11	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	conj
16	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 one	flat
17	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wee bag	45 p and the big one				per 100 g	tree rules

Option 4

They both work out at 48p per 100 g

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 work	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 p	case
6	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 p	nummod
7	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl
8	per	per	ADP	_	10 g	case
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 g	nummod
10	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 p	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	present	They			48 p per 100 g			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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