Test 4 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents
Your Aussie mate says "chuck us a gold coin for the sausage sizzle" ("sausage sizzle" is a charity barbecue). Sausage is $2. What do you give?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie mate, sausage sizzle, you · What happens: say, chuck, be, give · To what, where: gold coin, us, charity barbecue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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 Aussie mate says "chuck us a gold coin for the sausage sizzle" ("sausage sizzle" is a charity barbecue).
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 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Aussie | aussie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | compound |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuck | punct |
| 6 | chuck | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 chuck | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coin | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coin | compound |
| 10 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sizzle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sizzle | det |
| 13 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sizzle | compound |
| 14 | sizzle | sizzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuck | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 barbecue | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sizzle | punct |
| 18 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sizzle | compound |
| 19 | sizzle | sizzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 barbecue | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sizzle | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 barbecue | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 barbecue | det |
| 23 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 barbecue | compound |
| 24 | barbecue | barbecue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | parataxis |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 barbecue | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your Aussie mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | chuck in a quote | infinitive | a gold coin | us | for the sausage sizzle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination coin=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | sausage sizzle | a charity barbecue | 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: Sausage is $2.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 $ | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 $ | cop |
| 3 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 $ | nummod |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 $ | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: What do you give?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 give | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · do-support | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A $20 note, the gold one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 note | det |
| 2 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 4 note | compound |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 $ | nummod |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | compound |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 note | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Two 20-cent coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 coins | nummod |
| 2 | 20-cent | 20-cent | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 coins | amod |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A $2 coin, or two $1 coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coin | det |
| 2 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 4 coin | compound |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 $ | nummod |
| 4 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coins | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 coins | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 coins | nummod |
| 8 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 10 coins | compound |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 $ | nummod |
| 10 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A real gold coin from a museum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coin | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coin | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coin | compound |
| 4 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 museum | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 museum | det |
| 7 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coin | nmod |
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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