Test 8 · ★★ · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi…

«Nan says one old shilling is the same as 5p now» Is she right, if 20 shillings made a pound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, one old shilling, 20 shillings · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: pound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	advcl
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 shilling	nummod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shilling	amod
6	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 p	case
11	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 p	nummod
12	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	obl
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 same	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
15	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 right	nsubj
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
20	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 shillings	nummod
21	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 right	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pound	det
24	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Nan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	one old shilling		now	as 5 p; same property	tree rules
3	is	present	Nan			right property	tree rules
4	make a condition, not said to happen	past	20 shillings	a pound			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pound=Product

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No: a shilling was a tenth of a pound, so it is 10p now

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 tenth	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 tenth	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shilling	det
4	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tenth	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tenth	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tenth	det
7	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pound	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pound	det
10	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tenth	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 p	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 p	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 p	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 p	cop
15	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 p	nummod
16	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tenth	conj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 p	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a shilling	no tenth and 10 p				of a pound	tree rules
2	is a	present	shilling	10 p			now		tree rules

Option 2

No: a shilling was worth more than a pound, about 120p

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 worth	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 worth	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shilling	det
4	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worth	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 worth	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 pound	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pound	det
10	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 p	punct
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 120	advmod
13	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 p	nummod
14	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worth	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a shilling					120 p obl; worth property	tree rules

Option 3

No: a shilling had 12 pennies in it, so it is 12p now

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shilling	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 shilling	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shilling	det
4	shilling	shilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 pennies	nummod
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pennies	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 p	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 p	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 p	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 p	cop
14	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 p	nummod
15	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	conj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 p	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	no shilling	12 pennies		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient
2	is a	present	shilling	12 p			now		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes: a pound is now 100p, and a twentieth of 100p is 5p

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 p	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pound	det
4	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 p	cop
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 p	advmod
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 p	nummod
8	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 p	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 p	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 twentieth	det
12	twentieth	twentieth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 p	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 p	case
14	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 p	nummod
15	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 twentieth	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 p	cop
17	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 p	nummod
18	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a pound	100 p and 5 p			now		tree rules
2	is a	present	a twentieth of 100 p	5 p					tree rules

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