Test 6 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong
The shop assistant: "Up to £15, then half off, £7.50. Bargain, mate." What if the £10 toy went down by half first, then up by half?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: £ toy · What happens: go down
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: The shop assistant: "Up to £15, then half off, £7.50.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 assistant | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assistant | compound |
| 3 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Up | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Up | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Up | punct |
| 6 | Up | up | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 £ | case |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 Up | obl |
| 9 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 off | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 off | advmod |
| 12 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 off | advmod |
| 13 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 Up | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 £ | punct |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 off | obl |
| 16 | 7.50 | 7.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Up | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Bargain, mate."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bargain | conj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bargain | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bargain | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What if the £10 toy went down by half first, then up by half?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 went | obj |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 toy | det |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 6 toy | compound |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 up | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 half | case |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 went | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the £ toy | by half; by half; down, first property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
£7.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7.50 | 7.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£15
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£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.
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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