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Test 9 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending

In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone adding money. Where did the extra $2 come from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: grow, add, do, come · To what, where: savings account, money

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In a savings account, $100 grows to $102 after a year without anyone adding money.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 account	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 account	det
3	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 account	compound
4	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 account	punct
6	$	$	SYM	_	8 grows	nsubj
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 $	nummod
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 $	case
10	$	$	SYM	_	8 grows	obl
11	102	102	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 $	nummod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 anyone	case
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 grows	obl
17	adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 anyone	acl
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 adding	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present				a savings account	year	without anyone	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in account=Location
2	add speech: assert	gerund		money					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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.

Sentence 2: Where did the extra $2 come from?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 $	det
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 $	amod
5	$	$	SYM	_	2 did	obj
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 $	nummod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 $	xcomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	7 come	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Eventuality
2	come	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Interest paid by the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Interest	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		Interest not said here				by the bank	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The money grew by itself in the vault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 grew	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 vault	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vault	det
8	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the money			the vault		by money	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3

A mistake by the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mistake	det
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mistake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mistake		the bank						nom mistake «act intransitive»: by=agent

Option 4

A tax refund

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 refund	det
2	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refund	compound
3	refund	refund	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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