Test 11 · ★ · When money is tight
You write: pocket money £5, save £2, spend £3. What have you made?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: write, save, spend, make · To what, where: pocket money
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 9 «When money is tight» 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: You write: pocket money £5, save £2, spend £3.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 write | nsubj |
| 2 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | compound | ||
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 write | obj |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 money | nmod |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 save | punct |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 write | parataxis |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 save | obj |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spend | punct |
| 13 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 save | conj |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 spend | obj |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 write | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | You | pocket money | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | spend | infinitive | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
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 have you made?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A budget
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 budget | det |
| 2 | budget | budget | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A mortgage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mortgage | det |
| 2 | mortgage | mortgage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A credit score
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 score | det |
| 2 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 score | compound |
| 3 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A subscription
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 subscription | det |
| 2 | subscription | subscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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