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# Test 7 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales

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Sam yells "lies!" at a cereal box covered in strawberries with only 3 g of fruit in every 100 g. What's going on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** yell, cover, go on · **To what, where:** lies, cereal box, 100 g. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t7:1
# text = Sam yells "lies!" at a cereal box covered in strawberries with only 3 g of fruit in every 100 g. What's going on?
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	g.	G.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Sam | lies |  | a cereal box |  | with 3 g of fruit | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a cereal box *not said here* |  |  |  | in strawberries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in strawberry=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | present · progressive |  |  |  | every 100 g. |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in g.=Location |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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The picture is an advert; the ingredients tell the truth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t7:o1:1
# text = The picture is an advert; the ingredients tell the truth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the picture | a advert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the ingredients | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The shop stole the strawberries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t7:o2:1
# text = The shop stole the strawberries
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | the shop | the strawberries |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strawberry=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The strawberries melted in the box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t7:o3:1
# text = The strawberries melted in the box
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | past | the strawberries |  |  | the box |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pictures on boxes must show exactly what's inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t7:o4:1
# text = Pictures on boxes must show exactly what's inside
1	Pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | must | Pictures on boxes |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |

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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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