Test 8 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents
A game shows a "treasure chest" of 47 pennies and says it's "loads of money". What is it really worth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: game · What happens: show, say, be · To what, where: treasure chest, loads · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 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: A game shows a "treasure chest" of 47 pennies and says it's "loads of money".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chest | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chest | punct |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chest | compound |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chest | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pennies | case |
| 10 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 pennies | nummod |
| 11 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chest | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loads | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 loads | cop |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 loads | punct |
| 17 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 says | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 money | case |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loads | nmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 loads | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a game | a treasure chest of 47 pennies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chest=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a game not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | game | loads | of money | 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 is it really worth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 worth | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 worth | advmod |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | game | worth property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
47p, less than half a pound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p | nummod |
| 2 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pound | punct |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 half | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 less | fixed |
| 6 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 8 pound | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pound | det |
| 8 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 p | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£47
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
47 cents is more than a pound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 cents | nummod |
| 2 | cents | cent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 more | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 pound | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pound | det |
| 7 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 47 cents | than a pound; more property | tree rules |
Option 4
£4.70
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4.70 | 4.70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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