Test 9 · A bank account and a debit card
Your Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my account, eh." (A "loonie" is a Canadian one-dollar coin.) How much does she pay in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Canadian cousin, Mom, my, loonie · What happens: say, give, account, be, pay in · To what, where: twenty loonies, Canadian cousin, Canadian dollar coin, much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 26 «A bank account and a debit card» 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 Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my account, eh."
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 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cousin | amod |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | Mom | Mom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 loonies | nummod |
| 11 | loonies | loony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 account | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 account | nmod:poss |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eh | punct |
| 16 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 8 gave | discourse |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your Canadian cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | Mom | twenty loonies | Your Canadian cousin = cousin | for my account | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient loony=Theme for account=Asset | ||
| 3 | account in a quote | my | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: (A "loonie" is a Canadian one-dollar coin.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 coin | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 loonie | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 loonie | punct |
| 4 | loonie | loonie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coin | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 loonie | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 coin | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coin | det |
| 8 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coin | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dollar | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 11 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coin | compound |
| 12 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 coin | punct |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 coin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a loonie | a Canadian dollar coin | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How much does she pay in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pay | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pay | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in | present · do-support | Mom | much | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2 dollars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 dollars | nummod |
| 2 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
20 dollars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 dollars | nummod |
| 2 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1 dollar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 dollar | nummod |
| 2 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
200 dollars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 dollars | nummod |
| 2 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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