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Test 5 · ★ · When money is tight

Auntie bought five jumpers "cos they were practically giving them away" and never wore them. What went wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Auntie, jumpers · What happens: buy, give away, not wear, go · To what, where: five jumpers, them, jumpers

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Auntie bought five jumpers "cos they were practically giving them away" and never wore them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 jumpers	nummod
4	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bought	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 jumpers	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 giving	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 giving	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 giving	aux
9	practically	practically	ADV	_	10 giving	advmod
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bought	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 giving	iobj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 giving	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 giving	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wore	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 wore	advmod
16	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wore	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Auntie	five jumpers					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jumper=Theme
2	give away in a quote	past · progressive	jumpers = jumper		them = they			away, practically property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	not wear	past	Auntie not said here	jumpers = jumper					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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 went wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

She should have bought ten jumpers while they were cheap

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	4 bought	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 bought	aux
4	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 jumpers	nummod
6	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bought	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 cheap	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cheap	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cheap	cop
10	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bought	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	should · perfect	She	ten jumpers					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jumper=Theme
2	is	past	jumpers = jumper					cheap property	tree rules

Option 2

She paid full price without noticing

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 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 price	amod
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 noticing	mark
6	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 paid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	She	full price					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset
2	notice	gerund	She not said here						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Jumpers are never in a sale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jumpers	jumper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sale	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sale	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 sale	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sale	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sale	det
6	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Jumpers			a sale			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A bargain is only a bargain if you needed it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bargain	det
2	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bargain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bargain	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 bargain	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bargain	det
6	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 needed	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 needed	nsubj
9	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bargain	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needed	obj
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 needed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bargain	a bargain					tree rules
2	need a condition, not said to happen	past	you	bargain				anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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