Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★
★★★ Grandad: "Back in my day sweets were a penny." He puts 50p a week in a jar for a year. How much is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, that · What happens: be, put · To what, where: penny, day sweets, 50 p, jar
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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: "Back in my day sweets were a penny."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Grandad | case |
| 4 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 penny | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Back | punct |
| 7 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 14 penny | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sweets | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sweets | compound |
| 11 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 penny | obl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 penny | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 penny | det |
| 14 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 penny | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 penny | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | a penny | my day sweets | 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: He puts 50p a week in a jar for a year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 puts | nsubj |
| 2 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p | nummod |
| 4 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puts | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puts | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 jar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 jar | det |
| 9 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puts | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puts | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | Grandad | 50 p | a jar | week; year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent p=Theme in jar=Destination |
Sentence 3: How much is that?
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 | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 much | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 much | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | much property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
£26
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£52
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£25
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | 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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