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Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★

★★★ Dad looks at "2 for £5" on cereal that is £2.30 a box and says, "Hmm, not ideal." What does he really mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: look, say, mean · To what, where: 2 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Dad looks at "2 for £5" on cereal that is £2.30 a box and says, "Hmm, not ideal."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looks	nsubj
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 2	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 2	punct
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 looks	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 £	case
10	£	£	SYM	_	5 looks	obl
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 £	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 cereal	case
14	cereal	cereal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 £	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 £	cop
17	£	£	SYM	_	14 cereal	nmod
18	2.30	2.30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 £	nummod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 box	det
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 £	nmod:unmarked
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 says	cc
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 looks	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 ideal	punct
25	Hmm	hmm	INTJ	_	28 ideal	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ideal	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 ideal	advmod
28	ideal	ideal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 says	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 ideal	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 ideal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	★			2		on cereal	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 2=Location for £=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	★ not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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: What does he really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	★						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The deal costs 70p more than singles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deal	det
2	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	nsubj
3	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 p	nummod
5	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	obj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 costs	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 singles	case
8	singles	single	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the deal	70 p					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme p=Beneficiary more=Value

Option 2

The deal costs exactly the same as singles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deal	det
2	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	nsubj
3	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 costs	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 singles	case
8	singles	single	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 costs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the deal					as singles; same property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The deal costs 40p more than two single boxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deal	det
2	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	nsubj
3	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 p	nummod
5	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	obj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 two	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 boxes	nummod
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boxes	amod
10	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 costs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the deal	40 p					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme p=Beneficiary box=Value

Option 4

The deal is just a bit cheaper, by 40p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deal	det
2	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cheaper	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 cheaper	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	obl:unmarked
7	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 p	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 p	case
10	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 p	nummod
11	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the deal					by 40 p; a bit obl:unmarked; cheap property	tree rules

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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