Test 8 · Cards, banks and apps
Your sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is shocked how much went on sweets. What is she doing?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, pocket money, much · What happens: write down, spend, be, go, do · To what, where: pocket money, sweets
This is test 8 of lesson 7 «Cards, banks and apps» 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 sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is shocked how much went on sweets.
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 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 writes | nsubj |
| 3 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 money | nmod:poss |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | compound | ||
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 writes | obl |
| 8 | spending | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 money | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 month | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spending | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shocked | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shocked | cop |
| 14 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 writes | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shocked | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sweets | case |
| 19 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 writes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | present | Your sister | sister's pocket money | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spend | gerund | sister's pocket money not said here | month | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Your sister not said here | shocked property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | much | sweets | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sweet=Location |
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 she doing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 doing | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | much | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Earning interest on her sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earning | earn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Earning | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sweets | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Earning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | gerund | interest | her sweets | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent interest=Theme on sweet=Source |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The same as a budgeting app does for grown-ups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 same | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 does | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 does | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 app | det |
| 5 | budgeting | budget | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 app | amod |
| 6 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ups | case |
| 9 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ups | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 grown | punct |
| 11 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 does | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | budget | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | a budgeting app | for grown ups | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Opening a credit card account
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 account | det |
| 3 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 card | compound |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 account | compound |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Opening | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | a card account | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location account=Theme |
Option 4
Making the shop lower its prices
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Making | xcomp |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prices | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the shop | low property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset shop=Beneficiary price=Product |
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