Test 14 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending

got $10, gonna blow it all on sweets today

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: blow · To what, where: it, sweets

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 $	aux:pass
2	$	$	SYM	_	6 blow	obl
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 $	nummod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blow	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 blow	dep
6	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blow	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 sweets	case
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blow	obl
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here	it		sweets	today		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Buy lottery tickets to win more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tickets	compound
3	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Buy	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 win	mark
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Buy	advcl
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	lottery tickets					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme
2	win	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Spend it all, money's for spending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 money	punct
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spend	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 money	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 spending	case
8	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it				's money; for spending	vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Asset for spending=Theme

Option 3

Spend it, pocket money can't be saved anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saved	punct
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	compound
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saved	nsubj:pass
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 saved	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 saved	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 saved	aux:pass
9	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Spend	parataxis
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 saved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	not save	can · passive		pocket money				anyway property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Save some for things you'll need later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Save	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 things	case
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Save	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
7	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 things	acl:relcl
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 need	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	some				for things	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent some=Theme for thing=Source
2	need	future	you	things not said here				late property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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