Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★
★★★ Mia in Perth: "servo's got drinks $3 each or 4 for $10, I need 5, eh." What is the cheapest for exactly 5?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servo, I · What happens: get, need, be · To what, where: drinks, 5
This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Mia in Perth: "servo's got drinks $3 each or 4 for $10, I need 5, eh."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | flat |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Perth | case |
| 6 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | servo | servo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 ★ | parataxis |
| 12 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obj |
| 13 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 $ | nummod |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 4 | det |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 4 | cc |
| 17 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 $ | nummod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 $ | case |
| 19 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 13 $ | nmod |
| 20 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 $ | nummod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 need | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 need | nsubj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 need | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eh | punct |
| 26 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 23 need | discourse |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · passive | servo | drinks | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent drink=Beneficiary $=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | I | 5 | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 5=Theme |
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 is the cheapest for exactly 5?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 cheapest | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cheapest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cheapest | det |
| 4 | cheapest | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 5 | case |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 5 | advmod |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 cheapest | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cheapest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for 5; cheap property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
$12.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 12.50 | 12.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 $ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
$15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 $ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
$10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 $ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
$13
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 13 | 13 | 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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