Test 15 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending

guy online says send £5, he'll send back £10 tmrw

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: say, send, send back · To what, where: £ tmrw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	online	online	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 send	obj
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 send	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 send	aux
10	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 send	advmod
12	£	£	SYM	_	14 tmrw	compound
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	tmrw	tmrw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	guy		online property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send	infinitive				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme
3	send back	future	guy	£ tmrw		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tmrw=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Send £10 instead so you get £20 back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	£	£	SYM	_	1 Send	obj
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 £	nummod
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 get	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Send	advcl
8	£	£	SYM	_	7 get	obj
9	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here					instead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme
2	get back	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus

Option 2

Send it and ask him for proof afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Send	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 proof	case
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	it					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		him = he			for proof; afterwards property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Send it, it's only £5, not much to lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 £	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 £	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 £	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 £	advmod
7	£	£	SYM	_	1 Send	obl
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 £	nummod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 much	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Send	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lose	mark
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination much=Theme
2	lose	to-infinitive							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Don't, it's a trick, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	advcl
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trick	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trick	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a trick		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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