Test 1 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending
A boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without opening it. Roughly how much will he have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: put, open, have · To what, where: money box, box, much
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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 boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without opening it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 puts | obj |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 box | nmod:poss |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 box | compound |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 box | nmod |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 opening | mark |
| 18 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 puts | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 opening | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | a boy in Leeds | boy's money box for a year | week | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent £=Theme in box=Destination | |||
| 2 | open | gerund | a boy in Leeds not said here | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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: Roughly how much will he have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 have | obj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | boy | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About £12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About £100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About £52
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About £5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
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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