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Test 4 · ★ · Where money comes from

Your friend spent all her pocket money on day one and can't buy the comic. What is the lesson?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, lesson · What happens: spend, not buy, be · To what, where: pocket money, comic

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 5 «Where money comes from» 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: Your friend spent all her pocket money on day one and can't buy the comic.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 money	det:predet
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	compound
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	flat
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 buy	cc
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 buy	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 buy	advmod
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spent	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 comic	det
16	comic	comic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buy	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Your friend	friend's pocket money			day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
2	not buy	can	Your friend not said here	the comic					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=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: What is the lesson?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lesson						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Money runs out, and buying one thing means not buying another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 runs	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 means	cc
6	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 means	csubj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thing	nummod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buying	obj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 runs	parataxis
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 buying	advmod
11	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 means	xcomp
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	present	Money						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	gerund		one thing					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	mean	present	buying						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not buy not said to happen	gerund	buying not said here	another					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme

Option 2

Her parents should give her more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	should	Her parents		her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Comics are a waste of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waste	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 waste	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 waste	det
4	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Comics	a waste				of money	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Pocket money should always be spent at once, on the first day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 money	compound
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spent	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spent	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 spent	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spent	aux:pass
6	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 spent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	should · passive		Pocket money			day	always property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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