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title: Bro counts his coins: "four 50ps, no wait, three 50ps and two 10ps."… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro counts his coins: "four 50ps, no wait, three 50ps and two 10ps." How much has he got? Test 6 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 6 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

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Bro counts his coins: "four 50ps, no wait, three 50ps and two 10ps." How much has he got?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, much · **What happens:** count, coin, have, get · **To what, where:** coins

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This is test 6 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money 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/money/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Bro counts his coins: "four 50ps, no wait, three 50ps and two 10ps."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t6:1
# text = Bro counts his coins: "four 50ps, no wait, three 50ps and two 10ps."
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ps	p	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ps	p	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ps	p	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Bro | Bro's coins |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent coin=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **coin** |  | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 has he got?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t6:2
# text = How much has he got?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | much |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | participle | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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£1.70

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t6:o1:1
# text = £1.70
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1.70	1.70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£2.20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t6:o2:1
# text = £2.20
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2.20	2.20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£2.00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t6:o3:1
# text = £2.00
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2.00	2.00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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£1.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t6:o4:1
# text = £1.50
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	1	nummod	_	_
```

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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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