Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★
★★★ Ollie: "Nan gave me £5 - no wait, a tenner - and I got a mag for £3.20." What change did he get?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, I, ★ · What happens: give, get, be · To what, where: £ wait, me, mag
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 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: ★★★ Ollie: "Nan gave me £5 - no wait, a tenner - and I got a mag for £3.20."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Ollie | case |
| 4 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 wait | compound |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wait | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 wait | det |
| 14 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tenner | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tenner | det |
| 17 | tenner | tenner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wait | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 tenner | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mag | det |
| 23 | mag | mag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 £ | case |
| 25 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 21 got | obl |
| 26 | 3.20 | 3.20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 £ | nummod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | ★ ★ ★ Ollie | no £ wait | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wait=Theme | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | I | a mag | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mag=Theme for £=Source |
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 change did he get?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 get | obj |
| 2 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | past · do-support | ★ | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£1.80
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1.80 | 1.80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£6.20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 6.20 | 6.20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
£6.80
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 6.80 | 6.80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£7.20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 7.20 | 7.20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
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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