Test 10 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

lady gave me 5 dollars change but it should be 3. sweet!

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: lady, change · What happens: give, be · To what, where: dollars change, me, 3

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 dollars	nummod
5	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 change	compound
6	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 3	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 3	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 3	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 3	cop
11	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 gave	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sweet	punct
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	parataxis
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	lady	dollars change	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient change=Theme
2	is a	should	change	3					tree rules

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

Run before she notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 notices	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 notices	nsubj
4	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	notice	present	she						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Keep it, her mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mistake	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mistake	nmod:poss
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	mistake		her = she						nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Buy more sweets with it from the same shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sweets	amod
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Buy	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buy	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 shop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shop	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shop	amod
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	more sweets		the same shop		with it	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme from shop=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell her and give back the extra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 give	cc
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 extra	det
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	give back	infinitive	you not said here	the extra					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Theme

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