Test 10 · In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem
Mia's rule: half on games, half saved. She gets £20. How much for games?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: save, rule, get · To what, where: half
This is test 10 of lesson 412 «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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: Mia's rule: half on games, half saved.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rule | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 rule | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 games | case |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 half | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 half | conj |
| 10 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 half | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rule | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | participle | half not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rule | Mia | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: She gets £20.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 gets | obj |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Mia | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: How much for games?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 games | case |
| 4 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 much | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Twenty pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Ten pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Fifteen pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pounds | nummod |
| 2 | pounds | pound | 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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