Test 19 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

my mate says a dime is worth less than a nickel cos it's smaller. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, dime, nickel · What happens: say, be, co · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dime	det
5	dime	dime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 worth	obj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 cos	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nickel	det
11	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cos	nsubj
12	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 less	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 smaller	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 smaller	cop
15	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 cos	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 worth	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a dime	worth property	tree rules
3	co	present	a nickel		tree rules
4	is	present	nickel	small property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, smaller coins are worth less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 coins	amod
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worth	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	smaller coins					worth property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a dime is 10 cents and a nickel 5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 cents	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cents	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dime	det
4	dime	dime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cents	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cents	cop
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 cents	nummod
7	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nickel	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nickel	det
10	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cents	conj
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 nickel	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a dime	10 cents and a nickel					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, nickels are worth more because they're bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nickels	nickel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worth	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worth	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 bigger	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bigger	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bigger	cop
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worth	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	nickels					worth property	tree rules
2	is	present	nickels = nickel					big property	tree rules

Option 4

No, they're worth the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worth	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					worth property	tree rules

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