Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 2 of the money course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · wrong ✗
Your little cousin grabs the 2p cos "it's the biggest so it's the best innit". What's the truth?
- 1. Yes, the 2p is worth more than the £1 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, bigger coins are always worth more — no support
- 3. Size doesn't matter, the 2p is worth less than every coin but 1p — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, the smallest coin is always worth the most — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · right ✓
Mate in New York goes, "gimme a dime and two nickels for this gum, it's 20 cents." Is that enough?
- 1. Yes, 10 + 5 + 5 = 20 cents — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, and there's 5 cents change — no support
- 3. No, that's only 15 cents altogether — no support
- 4. No, that's only 12 cents in all — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · right ✓
Shopkeeper hands Jake change for £1.35 out of a £2 coin: a 50p and a 10p. He goes "hang on". Why?
- 1. That's 60p, but it should be 65p — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. That's 70p, which is too much — no support
- 3. That's exactly right, 65p — no support
- 4. That's 50p, which is too little — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 6: «In the UK, 100 pence make £1; the coins are 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «coins» (+2); the same thing acted on «1 p» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
Your Aussie mate says "chuck us a gold coin for the sausage sizzle" ("sausage sizzle" is a charity barbecue). Sausage is $2. What do you give?
- 1. A $20 note, the gold one — score 6
- 2. Two 20-cent coins — ← Mova's choice · score 12
- 3. A $2 coin, or two $1 coins — ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 4. A real gold coin from a museum — score 12
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 12, tied with another option at 12 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2, line 14: «Using the biggest coins first gives the fewest coins for any amount.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «give» (+4); the same thing acted on «fewest coins» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 12. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
What would happen if nobody's notes had any security features?
- 1. Prices in shops would all go down — no support
- 2. Notes would last longer in your pocket — no support
- 3. Nothing, because nobody ever makes fake money — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Fake notes would be easy to make and shops could lose money — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 15: «Real notes have security features such as see-through windows and tilting pictures; fake money is worth nothing and making it is a serious crime.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «money» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
Bro counts his coins: "four 50ps, no wait, three 50ps and two 10ps." How much has he got?
- 1. £1.70 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £2.20 — no support
- 3. £2.00 — no support
- 4. £1.50 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
A Brummie mate goes "bostin', I got a twenty for me birthday!" ("Bostin'" means great.) How many £5 notes is a twenty worth?
- 1. 2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 4 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 20 — no support
- 4. 5 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · right ✓
A game shows a "treasure chest" of 47 pennies and says it's "loads of money". What is it really worth?
- 1. 47p, less than half a pound — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £47 — no support
- 3. 47 cents is more than a pound — no support
- 4. £4.70 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50." ("Chipper" is a chip shop.) What change?
- 1. €3.00 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. €2.50 — no support
- 3. €3.50 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. €4.50 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
Mila's mum says a £0.99 price is a trick. What's the trick?
- 1. It feels much cheaper than £1 but is only 1p less — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 2. It means the item is nearly free — no support
- 3. It is the price in another country's money — score 7
- 4. It means the shop gives 99p back — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2, line 16: «A price of £0.99 is 99p, only 1p less than £1; shops use prices ending in 9 because they feel cheaper.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «99 p» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
Harry's got a £5 note and a 50p. Snack's £3.80. Change?
- 1. £1.70 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. £2.70 — no support
- 3. £1.20 — no support
- 4. £1.80 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
State the number of pence which together constitute one pound sterling.
- 1. One hundred — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fifty — no support
- 3. Ten — no support
- 4. One thousand — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
A purchaser tenders a two-pound coin in respect of an article priced at one pound thirty-five pence. Ascertain the change due.
- 1. Seventy-five pence — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thirty-five pence — no support
- 3. Sixty-five pence — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Fifty-five pence — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that a quantity of three twenty-pence coins, two ten-pence coins and one five-pence coin is held. Determine the aggregate value thereof.
- 1. Eighty-five pence — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ninety-five pence — no support
- 3. Seventy-five pence — no support
- 4. Eighty pence — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for which banknotes incorporate transparent windows and images that alter upon tilting.
- 1. To render counterfeiting difficult and detection straightforward — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To permit the holder to ascertain the balance of an account — no support
- 3. To reduce the cost of production of each note — no support
- 4. To indicate the date upon which the note shall expire — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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