Test 5 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes
Your sister's online game asks to tap mum's card for 500 gems. Why should she ask first?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: online game, game · What happens: ask, tap · To what, where: card
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Your sister's online game asks to tap mum's card for 500 gems.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 game | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sister | case |
| 4 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 game | amod |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asks | nsubj |
| 6 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tap | mark |
| 8 | tap | tap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asks | xcomp |
| 9 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 card | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mum | case |
| 11 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tap | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 gems | case |
| 13 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 gems | nummod |
| 14 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tap | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Your sister's online game | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tap not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your sister's online game not said here | mum's card | for 500 gems | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent card=Location for gem=Theme |
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: Why should she ask first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ask | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 ask | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | game | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Gems are free, so it does not matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 free | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 free | cop |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 matter | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 matter | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 matter | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 matter | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 matter | advmod |
| 9 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 free | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Gems | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not matter | present · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
The game pays the money back later
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 pays | nsubj |
| 3 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pays | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 pays | advmod |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 pays | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay back | present | the game | the money | late property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
Option 3
Card money is pretend money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 money | compound |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 money | cop |
| 4 | pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 money | amod |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Card money | pretend money | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It spends mum's real money from her account
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spends | nsubj |
| 2 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 mum | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spends | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 account | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 account | nmod:poss |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | It | mum's real money | her account | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 2 | account | her = she | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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