Test 15 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

Why did Tom lose his birthday money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: lose · To what, where: birthday money

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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	4 lose	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
6	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	compound
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	Tom	Tom's birthday money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He showed it off and it was stolen

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 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 showed	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stolen	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stolen	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stolen	aux:pass
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 showed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past	He	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	steal	past · passive		it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Money disappears by itself after a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappears	nsubj
2	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 itself	case
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 disappears	obl
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	Money				while	by Money	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He spent it on lunch

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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 lunch	case
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	He	it				on lunch goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on lunch=Goal

Option 4

The bank took it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bank	det
2	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the bank	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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