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title: Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips ar… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50." ("Chipper" is a chip shop.) What change? Test 9 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 o
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# Test 9 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

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Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50." ("Chipper" is a chip shop.) What change?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chips, Chipper · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tenner, chip shop

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:1
# text = Ma in Dublin: "here's a tenner for the chipper, ya chancer, chips are €6.50."
1	Ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tenner	tenner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chipper	chipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	chancer	chancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	6.50	6.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a tenner |  | here |  | for the chipper and ya chancer | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | chips |  |  |  |  | € 6.50 | 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:* ("Chipper" is a chip shop.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:2
# text = ("Chipper" is a chip shop.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Chipper	chipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What change?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:3
# text = What change?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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€3.00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:o1:1
# text = €3.00
1	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3.00	3.00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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€2.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:o2:1
# text = €2.50
1	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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€3.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:o3:1
# text = €3.50
1	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3.50	3.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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€4.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t9:o4:1
# text = €4.50
1	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4.50	4.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	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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