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Test 12 · ★★ · Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more

«a coffee's a loonie more than last year, eh» says a Toronto dad (loonie = one-dollar coin). What is this an example of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coffee, Toronto dad · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics 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: «a coffee's a loonie more than last year, eh» says a Toronto dad (loonie = one-dollar coin).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coffee	det
3	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 more	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loonie	det
6	loonie	loonie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	nsubj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	14 says	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 more	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dad	det
16	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dad	compound
17	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 loonie	punct
19	loonie	loonie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dad	appos
20	=	=	SYM	_	24 coin	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 dollar	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 dollar	punct
23	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coin	compound
24	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loonie	conj
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 loonie	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a coffee				year	more property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a Toronto dad						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 is this an example of?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 example	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 example	det
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 example	det
5	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 example	case
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of this example	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A tariff on maple syrup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tariff	det
2	tariff	tariff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 syrup	case
4	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 syrup	compound
5	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tariff	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Shrinkflation in the coffee cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shrinkflation	shrinkflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 cup	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cup	det
4	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cup	compound
5	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shrinkflation	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A strike by café workers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 strike	det
2	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 workers	case
4	café	café	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 workers	compound
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strike	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike		café workers						nom strike «act intransitive»: by=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Inflation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inflation	inflation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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