--- title: Ascertain the number of shillings that constituted one pound in the… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of shillings that constituted one pound in the currency used prior to 1971. Exam question 4 of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shi… Ascertain the number of shillings that constituted one pound in the currency used prior to 1971. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, shillings · **What happens:** ascertain, constitute, use · **To what, where:** number, one pound, currency This is exam question 4 of lesson 81 «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the number of shillings that constituted one pound in the currency used prior to 1971. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 shillings shilling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 constituted constitute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 currency currency NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 14 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 xcomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1971 1971 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **constitute** | participle | shillings | one pound | | the currency | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pound=Pivot | | 3 | **use** | past | shillings | the number *not said here* | | | | prior *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | 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} Twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e4:o1:1 # text = Twelve 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} One hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e4:o2:1 # text = One hundred 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e4:o3:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps:e4:o4:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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