--- title: Freddie's sister: "Check it, bro, your answer's 10p too expensive."… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics description: 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? 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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Freddie's sister: "Check it, bro, your answer's 10p too expensive." ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:1 # text = Freddie's sister: "Check it, bro, your answer's 10p too expensive." 1 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 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. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:2 # text = A pencil and a rubber cost £1.20 together, and the pencil costs £1 more than the rubber. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 £ £ SYM $ _ 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 1.20 1.20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:3 # text = How much is the rubber? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5p ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:o1:1 # text = 5p 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:o2:1 # text = £1 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 20p ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:o3:1 # text = 20p 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 10p ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t1:o4:1 # text = 10p 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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