Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…
★★★ Toad got six shillings and sixpence. How much MORE is that than the first offer of «a shilling a leg»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, that · What happens: get, be, shill · To what, where: six shillings
This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» of the books 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: ★★★ Toad got six shillings and sixpence.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Toad | case |
| 4 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 shillings | nummod |
| 7 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sixpence | cc |
| 9 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shillings | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | ★ ★ ★ Toad | six shillings and sixpence | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shilling=Stimulus |
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: How much MORE is that than the first offer of «a shilling a leg»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MORE | advmod |
| 3 | MORE | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 offer | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 offer | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 offer | nsubj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 offer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 offer | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 offer | amod |
| 9 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 leg | case |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 leg | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leg | det |
| 13 | shilling | shill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 leg | amod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leg | det |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offer | nmod |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 leg | punct |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 offer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | than the MORE first offer; of a shilling leg | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shill in a quote | gerund | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Three shillings and sixpence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixpence | cc |
| 4 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shillings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sixpence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two shillings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Two shillings and sixpence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shillings | nummod |
| 2 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sixpence | cc |
| 4 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shillings | conj |
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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