Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★
★★★ Uncle Pete: "TV's £200, or £10 a week for 30 weeks. Bit pricey, that loan." How much extra does the loan really cost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: much extra, loan · What happens: do, cost · To what, where: loan
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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: ★★★ Uncle Pete: "TV's £200, or £10 a week for 30 weeks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | _ | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pete | compound |
| 5 | Pete | Pete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 £ | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 £ | punct |
| 8 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 £ | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 TV | case |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 ★ | conj |
| 11 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 £ | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 £ | cc |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 £ | conj |
| 15 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 £ | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 weeks | case |
| 19 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 weeks | nummod |
| 20 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 week | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Bit pricey, that loan."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loan | nsubj |
| 2 | pricey | pricey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bit | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loan | punct |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 loan | det |
| 5 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loan | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 loan | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: How much extra does the loan really cost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 extra | amod |
| 3 | extra | extra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 loan | det |
| 6 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 cost | advmod |
| 8 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 loan | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | much extra | the loan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cost | infinitive | the loan not said here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£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 2
£30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
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 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£300
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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