Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★
★★★ Little sister: "Give me 1p today, 2p tomorrow, double every day for 10 days - or just £5 now." Which is more?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give, double, be · To what, where: 1 p, me
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Little sister: "Give me 1p today, 2p tomorrow, double every day for 10 days - or just £5 now."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Give | punct |
| 8 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ★ | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Give | iobj |
| 10 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 p | nummod |
| 11 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Give | obj |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 p | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 p | punct |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 p | nummod |
| 15 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 p | conj |
| 16 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 p | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 double | punct |
| 18 | double | double | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Give | conj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 double | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 days | nummod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 double | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 £ | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 £ | cc |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 £ | advmod |
| 27 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 Give | obl |
| 28 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 £ | nummod |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 £ | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ★ | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | 1 p today tomorrow and 2 p | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient p=Theme | ||||
| 2 | double in a quote | infinitive | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: Which is more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | more property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The £5 now, way more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 £ | det |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 £ | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 £ | conj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 £ | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The doubling, £10.23 in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doubling | det |
| 2 | doubling | doubling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 £ | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 £ | punct |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 5 | 10.23 | 10.23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 £ | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The doubling, just 20p in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doubling | det |
| 2 | doubling | doubling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 p | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 p | advmod |
| 5 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 p | nummod |
| 6 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doubling | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 p | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
They are exactly the same
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 | 5 same | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | exactly, same 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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