Test 14 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

got my change, just shove it in my pocket

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: my · What happens: get, shove, change · To what, where: change, pocket

This is test 14 · ★★ 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 change	nmod:poss
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shove	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 shove	advmod
6	shove	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 got	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shove	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past		my change		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus
2	shove	infinitive		change	my pocket	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination
3	change		my			nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Count it when you get home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	it					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	present	you					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Count it before you leave the till

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 leave	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 till	det
7	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	it					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	leave	present	you	the till					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent till=Theme

Option 3

Ask the next customer in the queue to check it for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 customer	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 customer	amod
4	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 queue	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 queue	det
7	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 check	mark
9	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 check	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the next customer		the queue			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent customer=Recipient
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here	customer				for you	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Attribute

Option 4

Fine, tills are never wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tills	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fine	punct
3	tills	till	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Fine tills					wrong property	tree rules

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