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title: «a coffee's a loonie more than last year, eh» says a Toronto dad (lo… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything… · tree and pragmatics
description: «a coffee's a loonie more than last year, eh» says a Toronto dad (loonie = one-dollar coin). What is this an example of? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «a coffee's a loonie more than last year, eh» says a Toronto dad (loonie = one-dollar coin).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:t12:1
# text = «a coffee's a loonie more than last year, eh» says a Toronto dad (loonie = one-dollar coin).
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loonie	loonie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	loonie	loonie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 is this an example of?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:t12:2
# text = What is this an example of?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A tariff on maple syrup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:t12:o1:1
# text = A tariff on maple syrup
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tariff	tariff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	syrup	syrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shrinkflation in the coffee cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:t12:o2:1
# text = Shrinkflation in the coffee cup
1	Shrinkflation	shrinkflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A strike by café workers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:t12:o3:1
# text = A strike by café workers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Inflation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more:t12:o4:1
# text = Inflation
1	Inflation	inflation	NOUN	NN	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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