Test 6 · Pocket money and earning it with chores
Nora's dad offers £3 a week or £12 a month. Over a whole year (52 weeks), which gives more?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: offer, give · To what, where: more
This is test 6 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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: Nora's dad offers £3 a week or £12 a month.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nora | Nora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nora | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offers | nsubj |
| 4 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 offers | obj |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 £ | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 £ | cc |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 £ | conj |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 £ | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | Nora's dad | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent £=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: Over a whole year (52 weeks), which gives more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeks | punct |
| 6 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 weeks | nummod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 year | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeks | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gives | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gives | nsubj |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 gives | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | more | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Monthly: £156 against £144
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monthly | monthly | ADV | _ | 3 £ | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 £ | punct |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 156 | 156 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 £ | case |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 £ | nmod |
| 7 | 144 | 144 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Monthly: £144 against £156
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monthly | monthly | ADV | _ | 3 £ | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 £ | punct |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 144 | 144 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 £ | case |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 £ | nmod |
| 7 | 156 | 156 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
They give 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 | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | They | the same | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Weekly: £156 against £144
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weekly | weekly | ADV | _ | 3 £ | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 £ | punct |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 156 | 156 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 £ | case |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 £ | nmod |
| 7 | 144 | 144 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | 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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