Test 10 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

found a wallet with $50 in it lol finders keepers

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: find · To what, where: wallet

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wallet	det
3	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 $	case
5	$	$	SYM	_	3 wallet	nmod
6	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 $	nummod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 found	obl
9	lol	lol	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 finders	amod
10	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keepers	compound
11	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		a wallet		wallet			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme keeper=Attribute

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

Keep the money, bin the wallet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 money	det
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bin	punct
5	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wallet	det
7	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the money					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	bin	infinitive	you not said here	the wallet					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme

Option 2

Yes, finders keepers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 keepers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keepers	compound
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, give it to a grown-up to return it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 up	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 up	det
7	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 up	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 return	mark
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 return	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it	a grown up				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to up=Recipient
2	return	to-infinitive	you not said here	up					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Spend half n give back the other half, that's fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Spend	obj
3	n	n	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Spend	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 half	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 half	amod
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fair	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 fair	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fair	cop
12	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spend	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	half		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent half=Asset clause=Goal
2	give back	infinitive	you not said here	the other half		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
3	is	present	that		fair property	tree rules

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