Test 10 · ★★ · The piggy bank and a jar for each goal
Jamie never smashes his piggy bank. His sis says "it's full of air, I bet." He's put £1 in every week for 30 weeks, and £2 in one extra week. How much is inside?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jamie, sis · What happens: not smash, say, be, bet, put · To what, where: piggy bank · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» 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: Jamie never smashes his piggy bank.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smashes | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 smashes | advmod |
| 3 | smashes | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bank | nmod:poss |
| 5 | piggy | piggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bank | compound |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smashes | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smashes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not smash | present | Jamie | Jamie's piggy bank | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=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: His sis says "it's full of air, I bet."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sis | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sis | sis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 full | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bet | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bet | nsubj |
| 12 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jamie's sis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | sis | of air; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bet in a quote | present | Jamie's sis = sis | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: He's put £1 in every week for 30 weeks, and £2 in one extra week.
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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 weeks | case |
| 10 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 weeks | nummod |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 £ | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 £ | cc |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 put | obl |
| 15 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 week | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 week | nummod |
| 18 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 week | amod |
| 19 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 £ | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | Jamie | week | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent £=Goal |
Sentence 4: How much is inside?
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 | 4 inside | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inside | cop |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 inside | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | inside property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£31
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£60
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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