Test 1 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

Your little cousin grabs the 2p cos "it's the biggest so it's the best innit". What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little cousin, cousin, truth · What happens: grab, be · To what, where: p cos, best innit

This is test 1 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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: Your little cousin grabs the 2p cos "it's the biggest so it's the best innit".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabs	nsubj
4	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cos	det
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 p	nummod
7	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cos	compound
8	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabs	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 biggest	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 biggest	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 biggest	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 biggest	det
13	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 cos	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 innit	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 innit	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 innit	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 innit	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 innit	amod
19	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 biggest	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grabs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grab	present	Your little cousin	the p cos		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cos=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	cousin		big property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	cousin	the best innit		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's the truth?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	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	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the 2p is worth more than the £1

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 p	det
4	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 p	nummod
5	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 worth	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 £	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 £	det
11	£	£	SYM	_	7 worth	obl
12	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the 2 p					worth property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, bigger coins are always worth more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 coins	amod
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 worth	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 worth	advmod
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bigger coins					always, worth property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Size doesn't matter, the 2p is worth less than every coin but 1p

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 worth	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 p	det
7	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 p	nummod
8	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worth	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 worth	cop
10	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 matter	conj
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 worth	obj
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 coin	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 coin	det
14	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worth	obl
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 p	cc
16	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 p	nummod
17	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Size						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	the 2 p					than every coin but 1 p; worth property	tree rules

Option 4

No, the smallest coin is always worth the most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 worth	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 worth	advmod
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 most	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 worth	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the smallest coin					always, worth 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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