Test 18 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

apparently the shop gave a kid 20 dollars too much change and he kept it and nobody ever found out lol. what's the true lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shop, nobody · What happens: give, keep, find out, be · To what, where: kid, change, true lesson

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 dollars	nummod
8	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 change	amod
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 found	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 found	advmod
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 found	compound:prt
21	lol	lol	INTJ	_	19 found	discourse
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 lesson	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lesson	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lesson	det
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lesson	amod
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	ccomp
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the shop	a kid		apparently property	tree rules
2	keep	past	shop	change			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	find out	past	nobody		ever		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		the true lesson			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 · ← Mova's choice

Keep it since it was their 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	since	since	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mistake	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mistake	cop
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mistake	nmod:poss
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	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	is	past	it				since their mistake		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the assistant 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 assistant	det
3	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 extra	det
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 give	obj

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

Option 3

Only give back big amounts, small ones don't matter to shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 give	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 amounts	amod
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 matter	punct
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 matter	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 matter	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 matter	advmod
11	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 shops	case
13	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	big amounts					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme
2	not matter	present · do-support	small ones					to shops	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to shop=Experiencer

Option 4

Spend it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Spend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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