Test 5 · ★★ · Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop
Overheard: "I won a fiver on a scratchie, so I bought six more." Over a month, what is most likely?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: overhear, win, buy, be · To what, where: fiver, scratchie, six more
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Overheard: "I won a fiver on a scratchie, so I bought six more."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 won | advcl |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overheard | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 won | nsubj |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fiver | det |
| 7 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 scratchie | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scratchie | det |
| 10 | scratchie | scratchie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fiver | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bought | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 bought | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bought | nsubj |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | conj |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 more | nummod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 bought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | participle | I not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past | I | a fiver | a scratchie | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiver=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | buy in a quote | past | I | six more | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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: Over a month, what is most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 month | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 month | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 likely | cop |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 likely | advmod |
| 8 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
She spends far more than she wins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spends | nsubj |
| 2 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 spends | obj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 wins | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wins | nsubj |
| 7 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spends | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | She | more | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | ||||
| 2 | win | present | she | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
She breaks even exactly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 exactly | advmod |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 breaks | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | She | exactly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
She wins every single time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | She | time | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
She wins much more than she spends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 wins | obj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 spends | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spends | nsubj |
| 7 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | She | more | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | spend | present | she | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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