Test 11 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…
★★★ The Hatter sells a hat for 10/6 (ten shillings and sixpence). With 12 pence to the shilling, how many old pennies is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, that · What happens: sell, be · To what, where: hat
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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: ★★★ The Hatter sells a hat for 10/6 (ten shillings and sixpence).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sells | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 Hatter | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hatter | det |
| 5 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hat | det |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sells | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 10/6 | case |
| 10 | 10/6 | 10/6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hat | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 shillings | punct |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 shillings | nummod |
| 13 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hat | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sixpence | cc |
| 15 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shillings | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 shillings | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | ★ ★ the Hatter | a hat | for 10/6 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent hat=Theme for 10/6=Asset |
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: With 12 pence to the shilling, how many old pennies is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 pence | case |
| 2 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 pence | nummod |
| 3 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shilling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shilling | det |
| 6 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pence | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pennies | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pennies | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pennies | amod |
| 11 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shilling | conj |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 is | nsubj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | that | with 12 pence to the shilling and many old pennies | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
126
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 126 | 126 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
160
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 160 | 160 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
66
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
106
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 106 | 106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/t11/