Test 5 · Prices and change at the till
Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiver and a £1 coin. What's missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, man · What happens: hand, give, be · To what, where: tenner, fiver, Jake
This is test 5 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: Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiver and a £1 coin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | nsubj |
| 2 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 tenner | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tenner | det |
| 5 | tenner | tenner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 toy | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 toy | det |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 toy | compound |
| 9 | 3.50 | 3.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
| 10 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gives | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | nsubj |
| 14 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hands | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gives | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fiver | det |
| 17 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 coin | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coin | det |
| 20 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 22 coin | compound |
| 21 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 £ | nummod |
| 22 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fiver | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | present | Jake | a tenner | for a £ toy | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give | present | the man | a fiver and a £ coin | Jake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fiver=Theme |
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: What's missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£1, the change should be £7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 7 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 change | det |
| 5 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 7 | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 7 | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 7 | cop |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 7 | compound |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | the change | £ 7 | tree rules |
Option 2
£1.50, the change should be £7.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1.50 | 1.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 1 £ | nummod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 £ | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 change | det |
| 5 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 £ | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 £ | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 £ | cop |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 1 £ | conj |
| 9 | 7.50 | 7.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
50p, the change should be £6.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 p | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 change | det |
| 5 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 p | conj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 £ | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 £ | cop |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 change | nmod |
| 9 | 6.50 | 6.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nothing, £6 is right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 right | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 £ | punct |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | right property | tree rules |
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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