Test 15 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

kid i barely know wants to borrow my new headphones for a week

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, kid · What happens: know, want, borrow · To what, where: kid, new headphones

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	barely	barely	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 kid	acl:relcl
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 borrow	mark
7	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 headphones	nmod:poss
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 headphones	amod
10	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 borrow	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 week	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 borrow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	i	kid not said here		barely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
2	want	present	kid				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive	kid not said here	my new headphones	week		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headphone=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

Give them to him to keep, then you can't lose them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lose	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 lose	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 lose	advmod
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		them = they		to him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not lose	can	you	them = they		then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

Option 2

Lend them and ask him for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lend	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lend	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		him = he			for money	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Lend them, he'll give them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lend	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lend	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	give back	future	he		them = they				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say no, or lend only what you can lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lend	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 lend	cc
5	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	parataxis
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 lose	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 lose	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lose	aux
10	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lend	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lend	infinitive		tree rules
3	lose	can	you	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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