Test 9 · ★★ · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…
Toad pays four shillings for a horse at «a shilling a leg». How much is that in old pence?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: pay, shill, be · To what, where: four shillings, leg, much old pence
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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: Toad pays four shillings for a horse at «a shilling a leg».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pays | nsubj |
| 2 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 shillings | nummod |
| 4 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pays | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pays | obl |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 11 shilling | mark |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 shilling | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shilling | det |
| 11 | shilling | shill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pays | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 leg | det |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shilling | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 shilling | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | Toad | four shillings | for a horse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent shilling=Asset for horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | shill in a quote | gerund | Toad not said here | a leg | tree rules |
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 in old pence?
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 | 7 pence | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pence | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 pence | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pence | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pence | amod |
| 7 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 pence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | much old pence | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
4 pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 pence | nummod |
| 2 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
40 pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 pence | nummod |
| 2 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
12 pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 pence | nummod |
| 2 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
48 pence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 pence | nummod |
| 2 | pence | pence | 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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