Test 3 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

Mate, how much did the professor pay Harry, a fiver or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: professor · What happens: pay · To what, where: much

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pay	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pay	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pay	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 professor	det
7	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	nsubj
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
9	Harry	Harry	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fiver	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fiver	det
12	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Harry	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fiver	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · do-support	the professor	much					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent much=Recipient harry=Asset

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

Option 1

a tenner, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tenner	det
2	tenner	tenner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tenner	punct
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	2 tenner	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

half a crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 crown	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a fiver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fiver	det
2	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

five shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	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.

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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