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description: Your mate: "Big packs are ALWAYS cheaper, everyone knows that." What's the truth? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales

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Your mate: "Big packs are ALWAYS cheaper, everyone knows that." What's the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, everyone, truth · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** that

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate: "Big packs are ALWAYS cheaper, everyone knows that."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t4:1
# text = Your mate: "Big packs are ALWAYS cheaper, everyone knows that."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	ALWAYS	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  | always, cheap *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | everyone | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the truth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t4:2
# text = What's the truth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Often, but not always; check the unit price

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t4:o1:1
# text = Often, but not always; check the unit price
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | the unit price |  |  |  | always, often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, big packs are always dearer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t4:o2:1
# text = No, big packs are always dearer
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	dearer	dear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | big packs |  |  |  |  | always, dear *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, always, because it's a law that big packs are cheaper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t4:o3:1
# text = Yes, always, because it's a law that big packs are cheaper
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a law |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only on Black Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t4:o4:1
# text = Only on Black Friday
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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