Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★
★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I pay £8, bussin'." What does she really pay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, I · What happens: buy, get, pay · To what, where: one, second half price, £ bussin
This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I pay £8, bussin'."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Ava | case |
| 4 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 £ | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 £ | punct |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 books | det |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 £ | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 £ | cop |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 1 ★ | appos |
| 11 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 buy | obj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 buy | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 price | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 price | amod |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 price | compound |
| 19 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pay | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 pay | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pay | nsubj |
| 23 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 buy | conj |
| 24 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 27 bussin | compound |
| 25 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 £ | nummod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bussin | punct |
| 27 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pay | obj |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 bussin | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 buy | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 buy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy in a quote | infinitive | ★ ★ Ava | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | ★ ★ Ava not said here | the second half price | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | present | I | £ bussin | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bussin=Asset |
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: What does she really pay?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 pay | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 pay | advmod |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · do-support | ★ | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
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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