Test 3 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

An Aussie uncle at the fair says, "I'll have a crack at the sweets jar, it's only 20c, heaps of fun." ("Have a crack" means try; "20c" is twenty cents.) If 60 people play at 20 cents, what is taken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie uncle, crack, 20c, 60 people · What happens: say, have, be, mean, try, play · To what, where: crack, sweets jar, twenty cents, 20 cents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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: An Aussie uncle at the fair says, "I'll have a crack at the sweets jar, it's only 20c, heaps of fun."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
2	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uncle	amod
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 fair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fair	det
6	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crack	det
14	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 jar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jar	det
17	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 jar	compound
18	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 20c	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 20c	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 20c	cop
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 20c	advmod
23	20c	20c	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	7 says	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heaps	punct
25	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 20c	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fun	case
27	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heaps	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 20c	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 20c	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Aussie uncle at the fair				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	future	a Aussie uncle at the fair = uncle	a crack	the sweets jar		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	crack			heaps of fun obl; 20c property	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: ("Have a crack" means try; "20c" is twenty cents.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 Have	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Have	punct
3	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crack	det
5	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Have	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Have	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 cents	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 20c	punct
11	20c	20c	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cents	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 20c	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cents	cop
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 cents	nummod
15	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 means	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	present		a crack	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Patient
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	infinitive			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	20c	twenty cents	tree rules

Sentence 3: If 60 people play at 20 cents, what is taken?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 play	mark
2	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 people	nummod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	nsubj
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 cents	case
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 cents	nummod
7	cents	cent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 play	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 taken	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux:pass
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play a condition, not said to happen	present	60 people			20 cents			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	present · passive							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

120 dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	120	120	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

12 dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	12	12	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

6 dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6	6	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 4

80 dollars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	80	80	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.

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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