--- title: ★★★ Finn: "I'm skint, mate, give us 85p back in the fewest coins." H… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Finn: "I'm skint, mate, give us 85p back in the fewest coins." How many coins is that? 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How many coins is that? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** 85 p, us, fewest coins, many coins This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 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/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Finn: "I'm skint, mate, give us 85p back in the fewest coins." ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t8:1 # text = ★★★ Finn: "I'm skint, mate, give us 85p back in the fewest coins." 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 skint skint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 14 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 85 85 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 fewest few ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | mate *vocative*; skint *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 85 p | us | the fewest coins | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient p=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 coins is that? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t8:2 # text = How many coins is that? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | many coins | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t8:o1:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t8:o2:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t8:o3:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t8:o4:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 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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