Test 9 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents
Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50." ("Chipper" is a chip shop.) What change?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chips, Chipper · What happens: be · To what, where: tenner, chip shop
This is test 9 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: Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Dublin | case |
| 3 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ma | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tenner | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 tenner | advmod |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tenner | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tenner | det |
| 9 | tenner | tenner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ma | appos |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 chipper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chipper | det |
| 12 | chipper | chipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tenner | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chancer | punct |
| 14 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chancer | compound |
| 15 | chancer | chancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chipper | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 6.50 | punct |
| 17 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 6.50 | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 6.50 | cop |
| 19 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 20 6.50 | case |
| 20 | 6.50 | 6.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 tenner | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 6.50 | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tenner | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a tenner | here | for the chipper and ya chancer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | chips | € 6.50 | 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: ("Chipper" is a chip shop.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 shop | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chipper | punct |
| 3 | Chipper | chipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shop | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chipper | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shop | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shop | det |
| 7 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shop | compound |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shop | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 shop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Chipper | a chip shop | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What change?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 change | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
€3.00
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 2 3.00 | case |
| 2 | 3.00 | 3.00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
€2.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 2 2.50 | case |
| 2 | 2.50 | 2.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
€3.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 2 3.50 | case |
| 2 | 3.50 | 3.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
€4.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | € | € | SYM | Number=Sing | 2 4.50 | case |
| 2 | 4.50 | 4.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | root | root |
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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