Test 16 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending
Why could Jack not get his missing £5 back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: not get
This is test 16 · ★★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 £ | nmod:poss |
| 7 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 £ | amod |
| 8 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 get | obj |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 £ | nummod |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus |
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
£5 is too little to matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 little | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 little | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 little | advmod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 matter | mark |
| 7 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 little | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | little property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | matter | to-infinitive | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
The shop keeps all mistakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 mistakes | det |
| 5 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keeps | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the shop | all mistakes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |
Option 3
He was given too much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | He | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient much=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He only noticed after he had left the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 left | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 noticed | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | He | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | he | the shop | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme |
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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