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title: A boy in Florida has a quarter, a dime and a nickel. How much money… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Florida has a quarter, a dime and a nickel. How much money is that? Test 3 · ★★ 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 3 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

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A boy in Florida has a quarter, a dime and a nickel. How much money is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** quarter, that

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Florida has a quarter, a dime and a nickel.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t3:1
# text = A boy in Florida has a quarter, a dime and a nickel.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a boy in Florida | a quarter and a dime and a nickel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How much money is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t3:2
# text = How much money is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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45 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t3:o1:1
# text = 45 cents
1	45	45	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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40 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t3:o2:1
# text = 40 cents
1	40	40	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 {#o3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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30 cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t3:o4:1
# text = 30 cents
1	30	30	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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