Test 5 · Pocket money and earning it with chores
Tom's gran: "I got sixpence and thought I was the Queen of Sheba!" What does she mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Tom · What happens: get, think, be, mean · To what, where: sixpence, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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: Tom's gran: "I got sixpence and thought I was the Queen of Sheba!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tom | case |
| 3 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gran | acl |
| 8 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Queen | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Queen | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sheba | case |
| 16 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Queen | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Queen | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | I | sixpence | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sixpence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | I | the Queen | of Sheba | 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: What does she mean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | Tom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sixpence was worth a million pounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worth | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 million | det |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pounds | nummod |
| 6 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worth | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sixpence | worth property | tree rules |
Option 2
She was really a queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 queen | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 queen | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | She | a queen | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She felt rich, because sixpence bought more back then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 bought | mark |
| 6 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | nsubj |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 back | advmod |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bought | advmod |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bought | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | She | rich property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | sixpence | then | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Sixpence was a gold bar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bar | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bar | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bar | det |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bar | compound |
| 5 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sixpence | a gold bar | tree rules |
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