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# Test 8 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

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A game shows a "treasure chest" of 47 pennies and says it's "loads of money". What is it really worth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** game · **What happens:** show, say, be · **To what, where:** treasure chest, loads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A game shows a "treasure chest" of 47 pennies and says it's "loads of money".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t8:1
# text = A game shows a "treasure chest" of 47 pennies and says it's "loads of money".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a game | a treasure chest of 47 pennies |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chest=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a game *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | game | loads |  |  |  | of money | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is it really worth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t8:2
# text = What is it really worth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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47p, less than half a pound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t8:o1:1
# text = 47p, less than half a pound
1	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£47

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t8:o2:1
# text = £47
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	47	47	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
47 cents is more than a pound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t8:o3:1
# text = 47 cents is more than a pound
1	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 47 cents |  |  |  |  | than a pound; more *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£4.70

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t8:o4:1
# text = £4.70
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4.70	4.70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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