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title: got 2 quarters n a dime, no wait 3 quarters n a dime. how much is that — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: got 2 quarters n a dime, no wait 3 quarters n a dime. how much is that Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

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got 2 quarters n a dime, no wait 3 quarters n a dime. how much is that

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 2 quarters, 3 quarters, that · **What happens:** be, n · **To what, where:** 2 quarters, dime

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t10:1
# text = got 2 quarters n a dime, no wait 3 quarters n a dime. how much is that
1	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	n	n	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	n	n	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | 2 quarters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **n** | present | 2 quarters | a dime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **n** | present | 3 quarters | a dime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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4 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t10:o1:1
# text = 4 cents
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
35 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t10:o2:1
# text = 35 cents
1	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
85 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t10:o3:1
# text = 85 cents
1	85	85	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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60 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t10:o4:1
# text = 60 cents
1	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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