Test 11 · ★ · In-game currency: coins and gems are real money
Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver." What does 1,500 gems really cost?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, cost
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 16 «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» 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: Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bro | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fiver | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 gems | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 gems | punct |
| 6 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 gems | nummod |
| 7 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bro | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 £ | case |
| 9 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 gems | nmod |
| 10 | 4.99 | 4.99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 £ | nummod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gems | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 1,500 | advmod |
| 13 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 gems | nummod |
| 14 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gems | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fiver | cop |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 fiver | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fiver | det |
| 18 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fiver | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fiver | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Lily's bro | like a fiver | 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: What does 1,500 gems really cost?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 cost | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | aux |
| 3 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 gems | nummod |
| 4 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 cost | advmod |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present · do-support | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About £5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About £50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About £15 (£14.97)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 £ | nummod |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 £ | punct |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 £ | conj |
| 6 | 14.97 | 14.97 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 £ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About £1.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 £ | advmod |
| 2 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 3 | 1.50 | 1.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 2 £ | nummod |
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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