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title: my mate says a dime is worth less than a nickel cos it's smaller. ri… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: my mate says a dime is worth less than a nickel cos it's smaller. right? Test 19 · ★★ 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 19 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
my mate says a dime is worth less than a nickel cos it's smaller. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, dime, nickel · **What happens:** say, be, co · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 19 · ★★ 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/#t19).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t19:1
# text = my mate says a dime is worth less than a nickel cos it's smaller. right?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cos	co	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
17	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a dime |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **co** | present | a nickel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | nickel |  |  |  |  | small *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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Yes, smaller coins are worth less

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t19:o1:1
# text = Yes, smaller coins are worth less
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | smaller coins |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, a dime is 10 cents and a nickel 5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t19:o2:1
# text = No, a dime is 10 cents and a nickel 5
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a dime | 10 cents and a nickel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, nickels are worth more because they're bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t19:o3:1
# text = Yes, nickels are worth more because they're bigger
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nickels	nickel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | nickels |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | nickels *= nickel* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they're worth the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t19:o4:1
# text = No, they're worth the same
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |

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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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