--- title: Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks.… — Swaps and barter in the playground · tree and pragmatics description: Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks." How many eggs is a dozen? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 4 «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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 was righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/t8/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Swaps and barter in the playground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Swaps and barter in the playground Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks." How many eggs is a dozen? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Grandad, many eggs · **What happens:** swap, be · **To what, where:** dozen eggs, dozen This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 4 «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks." ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t8:1 # text = Grandad: "After the war we swapped a dozen eggs for a pair of socks." 1 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 After after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dozen dozen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** *in a quote* | past | Grandad | dozen eggs | | | after the war | for a pair of socks | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent egg=Theme for pair=Co-Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many eggs is a dozen? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t8:2 # text = How many eggs is a dozen? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dozen dozen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | many eggs | a dozen | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t8:o1:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t8:o2:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t8:o3:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground:t8:o4:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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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