Test 1 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
Freddie's sister: "Check it, bro, your answer's 10p too expensive." A pencil and a rubber cost £1.20 together, and the pencil costs £1 more than the rubber. How much is the rubber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: your, pencil · What happens: check, answer, cost, be · To what, where: it, much rubber
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world 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: Freddie's sister: "Check it, bro, your answer's 10p too expensive."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Freddie | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Check | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Check | punct |
| 6 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sister | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Check | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Check | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 p | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 answer | nmod:poss |
| 12 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 p | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 answer | case |
| 14 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 p | nummod |
| 15 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Check | obl |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 expensive | advmod |
| 17 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 p | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check in a quote | infinitive | it | bro vocative; your answer's 10 p obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer in a quote | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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: A pencil and a rubber cost £1.20 together, and the pencil costs £1 more than the rubber.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pencil | det |
| 2 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 costs | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cost | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cost | det |
| 5 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | compound |
| 6 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pencil | conj |
| 7 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 cost | appos |
| 8 | 1.20 | 1.20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 £ | nummod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 £ | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 costs | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 costs | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pencil | det |
| 13 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 costs | nsubj |
| 14 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 costs | obj |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 £ | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 rubber | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rubber | det |
| 20 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 costs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | a pencil and a rubber cost | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
Sentence 3: How much is the rubber?
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 | 5 rubber | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rubber | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rubber | det |
| 5 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 rubber | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the much rubber | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
20p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
10p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | 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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