Test 1 · ★★ · Saving up for a game
Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6. Now how many weeks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, that · What happens: groan, be, get, give · To what, where: Sam · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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: Sam groans "how long's that gonna take?" — game's £24, he gets £3 a week, and Gran's just given him £6.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 groans | nsubj |
| 2 | groans | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 take | advmod |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | cop |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 take | dep |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 groans | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 game | punct |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 groans | obl |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 game | case |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 game | nmod |
| 16 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gets | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gets | nsubj |
| 19 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 groans | conj |
| 20 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 19 gets | obj |
| 21 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 £ | nummod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 week | det |
| 23 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 given | cc |
| 26 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 given | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Gran | case |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 given | advmod |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 groans | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 given | iobj |
| 31 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 29 given | obj |
| 32 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 £ | nummod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 groans | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | present | Sam | 's game | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | long, take property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Sam | week | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | Sam not said here | Sam | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient £=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: Now how many weeks?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 weeks | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 weeks | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
7
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
8
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | 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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