Test 3 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents
Shopkeeper hands Jake change for £1.35 out of a £2 coin: a 50p and a 10p. He goes "hang on". Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Shopkeeper, Jake · What happens: hand, change, go, hang on · To what, where: 50 p, £ coin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: Shopkeeper hands Jake change for £1.35 out of a £2 coin: a 50p and a 10p.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shopkeeper | Shopkeeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | nsubj |
| 2 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 change | nsubj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hands | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 £ | case |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 change | obj |
| 7 | 1.35 | 1.35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 coin | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 coin | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coin | det |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 coin | compound |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 £ | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 p | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 p | det |
| 16 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 p | nummod |
| 17 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hands | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 p | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 p | det |
| 20 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 p | nummod |
| 21 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 p | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | present | Shopkeeper | a 50 p and a 10 p | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present | Jake | a £ coin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient |
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: He goes "hang on".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hang | punct |
| 4 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 goes | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 hang | compound:prt |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hang | punct |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Jake | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hang on in a quote | infinitive | Jake not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
That's 60p, but it should be 65p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 p | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 p | cop |
| 3 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p | nummod |
| 4 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 p | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 p | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 p | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 p | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 p | cop |
| 10 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 p | nummod |
| 11 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 p | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | 60 p but 65 p | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | should | it | 65 p | tree rules |
Option 2
That's 70p, which is too much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 p | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 p | cop |
| 3 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p | nummod |
| 4 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 much | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 much | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 p | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | 70 p | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | 70 p | much property | tree rules |
Option 3
That's exactly right, 65p
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 p | punct |
| 6 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 p | nummod |
| 7 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | 65 p obl; exactly, right property | tree rules |
Option 4
That's 50p, which is too little
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 p | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 p | cop |
| 3 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p | nummod |
| 4 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 little | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 little | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 little | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 p | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | 50 p | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | 50 p | little property | tree rules |
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