Test 12 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…

★★★ A Victorian family buys three hats at 10/6 each. How much is that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, that · What happens: buy, be · To what, where: three hats, 10/6

This is test 12 · ★★ 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: ★★★ A Victorian family buys three hats at 10/6 each.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 buys	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	6 family	case
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
5	Victorian	victorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 family	amod
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
7	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hats	nummod
9	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buys	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 10/6	case
11	10/6	10/6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 buys	obl
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 10/6	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 buys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	★ ★ a Victorian family	three hats		10/6			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hat=Theme at 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: How much is that?

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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 much	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 much	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					much property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

£3 1s 6d (three pounds, one shilling and sixpence altogether)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	4 6d	compound
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	1s	1	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 6d	compound
4	6d	6d	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 pounds	punct
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pounds	nummod
7	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 6d	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shilling	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 shilling	nummod
10	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pounds	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sixpence	cc
12	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shilling	conj
13	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	10 shilling	advmod
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 pounds	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

£31 6d (thirty-one pounds and sixpence)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	3 6d	compound
2	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	6d	6d	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 pounds	punct
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 one	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 thirty	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pounds	nummod
8	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 6d	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sixpence	cc
10	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pounds	conj
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 pounds	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

£1 10s 6d (one pound, ten shillings and sixpence)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	4 6d	compound
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	10s	10	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 6d	compound
4	6d	6d	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 pound	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pound	nummod
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 6d	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shillings	punct
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 shillings	nummod
10	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pound	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sixpence	cc
12	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shillings	conj
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 pound	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

£1 11s 6d (one pound, eleven shillings and sixpence)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	4 6d	compound
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod
3	11s	11	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 6d	compound
4	6d	6d	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 pound	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pound	nummod
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 6d	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shillings	punct
9	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 shillings	nummod
10	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pound	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sixpence	cc
12	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shillings	conj
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 pound	punct

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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