Test 1 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…
A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill. How much change should she get?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, much change · What happens: pay, get
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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 girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pays | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 York | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 York | flat |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 6 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 snack | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 snack | det |
| 9 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cent | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 70 | punct |
| 11 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snack | compound |
| 12 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pays | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bill | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 dollar | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 17 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bill | compound |
| 18 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pays | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | a girl in New York | for a cent snack; with a dollar bill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for snack=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: How much change should she get?
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 change | amod |
| 3 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | should | much change | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
25 cents, for example one quarter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cents | nummod |
| 2 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 example | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 example | case |
| 5 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cents | nmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarter | nummod |
| 7 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cents | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
3 cents, for example three pennies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cents | nummod |
| 2 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 example | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 example | case |
| 5 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cents | nmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pennies | nummod |
| 7 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cents | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
70 cents, for example two quarters and two dimes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cents | nummod |
| 2 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quarters | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 quarters | case |
| 5 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarters | nmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarters | nummod |
| 7 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cents | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dimes | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 dimes | nummod |
| 10 | dimes | dime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cents | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
30 cents, for example one quarter and one nickel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cents | nummod |
| 2 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quarter | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 example | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 example | case |
| 5 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cents | nmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 quarter | nummod |
| 7 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nickel | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 nickel | nummod |
| 10 | nickel | nickel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarter | 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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