Test 11 · Prices and change at the till
Ayla's got a £1 coin and a 10p. Lolly's 60p. She gives the lot. What's her change?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayla, change · What happens: get, give, be, change · To what, where: £ coin, lot
This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» of the money 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: Ayla's got a £1 coin and a 10p.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayla | Ayla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coin | det |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 coin | compound |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 p | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 p | det |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 p | nummod |
| 11 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coin | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | Ayla | a £ coin and a 10 p | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coin=Stimulus |
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: Lolly's 60p.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lolly | Lolly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 p | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lolly | case |
| 3 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p | nummod |
| 4 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 p | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: She gives the lot.
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 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Ayla | the lot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
Sentence 4: What's her change?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 change | nmod:poss |
| 4 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ayla's change | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | Ayla | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
One 50p coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 coin | nummod |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 p | nummod |
| 3 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coin | compound |
| 4 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
40p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
60p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four 10p coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 coins | nummod |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 p | nummod |
| 3 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | compound |
| 4 | coins | coin | 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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