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Test 4 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

A little boy chooses a nickel instead of a dime because "it is bigger, so it's worth more". What has he got wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little boy, nickel, boy · What happens: choose, be, have, get · To what, where: nickel

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A little boy chooses a nickel instead of a dime because "it is bigger, so it's worth more".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chooses	nsubj
4	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nickel	det
6	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chooses	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	10 dime	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dime	det
10	dime	dime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chooses	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 bigger	mark
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 bigger	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bigger	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bigger	cop
15	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 chooses	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 worth	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 worth	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 worth	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 worth	cop
20	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bigger	parataxis
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 worth	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 worth	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chooses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	a little boy	a nickel				instead a dime	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	nickel					big property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	nickel					worth 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.

Sentence 2: What has he got wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	ccomp
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							tree rules
2	get	past	boy					wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1

A nickel is always worth more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nickel	det
2	nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 worth	advmod
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worth	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Value is shown by the number on the coin, not its size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shown	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shown	aux:pass
3	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 number	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shown	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 coin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coin	det
9	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 number	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 size	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 size	advmod
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 size	nmod:poss
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · passive	the number on the coin	Value				Value's size obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Coins all have the same value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 value	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 value	amod
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Coins	the same value				all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient

Option 4

Bigger coins are always worth more than smaller ones, everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 coins	amod
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worth	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 worth	advmod
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worth	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 ones	case
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 more	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 worth	advmod

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

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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