Test 5 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips
A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and has nothing left for the ice cream. What could have helped?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: spend, have, leave, help · To what, where: trip money, first gift shop, nothing
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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: A boy in Sydney spends all his trip money in the first gift shop and has nothing left for the ice cream.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 money | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 8 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 money | compound |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shop | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shop | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 shop | amod |
| 13 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shop | compound |
| 14 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spends | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 has | cc |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spends | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 has | obj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 nothing | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 cream | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cream | det |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cream | compound |
| 22 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | a boy in Sydney | boy's trip money | the first gift shop | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 2 | have | present | a boy in Sydney not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | for the ice cream | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for cream=Recipient |
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 could have helped?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 helped | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 helped | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helped | aux |
| 4 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could · perfect | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
Borrowing from the teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 teacher | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Borrowing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | from the teacher | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from teacher=Source |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Deciding before the trip how much to spend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 trip | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trip | det |
| 4 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Deciding | obl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Deciding | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spend | mark |
| 8 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 much | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | gerund | much | before the trip | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent much=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spend | to-infinitive | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Buying everything in the last shop instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Buying | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shop | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shop | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shop | amod |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buying | obl |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Buying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | everything | the last shop | instead property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
Option 4
Bringing no money at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 money | det |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bringing | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Bringing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | gerund | no money | all | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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