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Test 4 · ★ · Birthday parties

You gave a cheap but carefully chosen book as a present, and your friend got an expensive game from someone else. What matters most?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, friend · What happens: give, choose, get, matter · To what, where: cheap book, expensive game, someone

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: You gave a cheap but carefully chosen book as a present, and your friend got an expensive game from someone else.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
4	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	amod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 chosen	cc
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	7 chosen	advmod
7	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cheap	conj
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 present	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 present	det
11	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 game	det
18	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 game	amod
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 someone	case
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 got	obl
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 someone	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	You	a cheap book				as a present	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
2	choose	participle	You not said here					carefully property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	your friend	a expensive game		someone			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent game=Theme from someone=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 matters most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 matters	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 matters	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Who gave the biggest box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		the biggest box					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

Option 2

Which present arrived first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 present	det
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 arrived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	which present					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Which of the two presents cost more money in the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cost	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 presents	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 presents	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 presents	nummod
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cost	nsubj
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cost	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 shop	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shop	det
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the two presents	more money		the shop			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme which=Beneficiary money=Value

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

The thought behind the present, not the price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 present	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 present	det
5	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nmod
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	2 thought	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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