Test 2 · ★ · Chores and broken things

Which is true about doing chores for pocket money?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do · To what, where: chores

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 doing	mark
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 doing	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 money	case
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	do	gerund		chores				for pocket money	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1

The faster the job is done, the more it is worth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 faster	det
2	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 job	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worth	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 more	det
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 worth	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worth	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 worth	cop
12	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 done	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		the faster job					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	present	job					worth property	tree rules

Option 2

A job only counts if a grown-up stands and watches you doing it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 job	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counts	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 counts	advmod
4	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 stands	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 up	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 up	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stands	nsubj
10	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 watches	cc
12	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 counts	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 watches	obj
14	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 watches	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	count	present	a job		tree rules
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand a condition, not said to happen	present	a grown up		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	present	a job not said here	you	tree rules
5	do	gerund	you not said here	up	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Doing half the job earns the whole money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 earns	csubj
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 job	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Doing	obj
5	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 earns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		half job					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	earn	present	Doing	the whole money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The job should be done well, because that is what earns the money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 job	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 done	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 earns	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 earns	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 what	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 earns	nsubj
12	earns	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 money	det
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 earns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	should · passive		the job	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that			tree rules
3	earn	present		the money		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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