Test 8 · ★ · Swaps and barter in the playground
Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks." How many eggs is a dozen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, many eggs · What happens: swap, be · To what, where: dozen eggs, dozen
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 4 «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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: Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 swapped | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 swapped | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 swapped | punct |
| 4 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swapped | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swapped | nsubj |
| 8 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dozen | det |
| 10 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eggs | nummod |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swapped | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 pair | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pair | det |
| 14 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swapped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 socks | case |
| 16 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pair | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swapped | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 swapped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap in a quote | past | Grandad | dozen eggs | after the war | for a pair of socks | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent egg=Theme for pair=Co-Theme |
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: How many eggs is a dozen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eggs | amod |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dozen | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dozen | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dozen | det |
| 6 | dozen | dozen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dozen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many eggs | a dozen | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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