Test 11 · ★ · Birthday parties

my present was cheap, its only a book, is that bad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: present · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 present	nmod:poss
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cheap	cop
4	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 present	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 book	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 book	nmod:poss
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 book	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 present	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 present	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bad	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 bad	mark
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cheap property	tree rules
2	is	present	my present and its book					bad property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, you should buy a bigger, more expensive one instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 buy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 buy	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 buy	aux
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 one	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 expensive	advmod
10	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obj
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	should	you	a bigger expensive one				instead property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2

Only toys count as presents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 toys	advmod
2	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 presents	case
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	toys	presents					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme

Option 3

Yes, presents must be expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 expensive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 expensive	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 expensive	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 expensive	cop
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	presents					expensive property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the thought matters, not the price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 matters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matters	nsubj
5	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 price	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 price	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 price	det
9	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the thought						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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