Test 15 · ★ · Puzzles, money and video games

Why did Sam's family get a huge bill from a free game?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: do, get · To what, where: huge bill, free game

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 243 «Puzzles, money and video games» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 family	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Sam	case
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bill	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bill	amod
9	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 game	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 game	det
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 game	amod
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Sam's family not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	Sam's family	a huge bill		a free game			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bill=Theme from game=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.

The options

Option 1

Free games charge for every hour you play them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 games	amod
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 charge	nsubj
3	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 play	nsubj
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 charge	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	Free games						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	present	you	games = game			hour		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

The bill was really from a different game his sister played

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bill	det
2	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 game	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 game	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	8 game	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 game	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 game	amod
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 played	nsubj
11	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 game	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bill			a different game			tree rules
2	play	past	his sister	a different game not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 3

The game broke the tablet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tablet	det
5	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the game	the tablet					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tablet=Patient

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

He kept buying extras with the saved card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	extras	extra	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buying	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 card	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 card	det
7	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 card	amod
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He			tree rules
2	buy	gerund	He not said here	extras	with the saved card	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Theme
3	save	participle				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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