Test 11 · ★ · Wants and needs
Grandad says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters." If a £25 coat lasts 5 winters, how much per winter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, coat, £ coat · What happens: say, last · To what, where: day · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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 says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 back | punct |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 back | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coat | det |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lasted | nsubj |
| 10 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 winters | nummod |
| 12 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lasted | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | last in a quote | past | a coat | my day not said here | winter | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme day=Value |
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: If a £25 coat lasts 5 winters, how much per winter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 lasts | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coat | det |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 coat | compound |
| 4 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lasts | nsubj |
| 6 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 winters | nummod |
| 8 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lasts | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 much | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 winters | appos |
| 12 | per | per | ADP | _ | 13 winter | case |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 lasts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | a £ coat | winter | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
£5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£2.50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 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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