Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★
★★★ Finn: "I'm skint, mate, give us 85p back in the fewest coins." How many coins is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: 85 p, us, fewest coins, many coins
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ Finn: "I'm skint, mate, give us 85p back in the fewest coins."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | appos |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 skint | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 skint | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 skint | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 skint | cop |
| 9 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skint | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 skint | parataxis |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 p | nummod |
| 16 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 give | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 coins | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coins | det |
| 20 | fewest | few | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 coins | amod |
| 21 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | mate vocative; skint property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | 85 p | us | the fewest coins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient p=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 coins is that?
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 coins | amod |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 coins | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 coins | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 coins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | many coins | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 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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