Test 12 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

got £10 pocket money, spending all of it today on sweets

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: £ 10 pocket money · What happens: get, spend · To what, where: all, sweets

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 money	nsubj
2	£	£	SYM	_	5 money	compound
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 money	nummod
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	compound
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spending	punct
7	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 money	acl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 spending	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spending	obl:unmarked
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 sweets	case
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	spend	gerund	£ 10 pocket money not said here	all			today	on sweets goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent all=Asset on sweet=Goal

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

Hide it and forget it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 forget	cc
4	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	it					tree rules

Option 2

Give it all away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Spend it all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	all	all	ADV	_	1 Spend	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Spend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it				all property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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

Save some and spend some wisely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Save	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spend	cc
4	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Save	conj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 spend	obj
6	wisely	wisely	ADV	_	4 spend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	some					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
2	spend	infinitive	you not said here	some				wisely property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset

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