Test 19 · ★ · Routines, screen time and earning money

my mate says there's a website paying kids 100 bucks a day for just clicking stuff. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, website · What happens: say, be, pay, buck, click · To what, where: kids, stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bucks	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 website	det
7	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bucks	nsubj
8	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 website	acl
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 paying	obj
10	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 kids	flat
11	bucks	buck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bucks	obl:unmarked
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 clicking	mark
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 clicking	advmod
16	clicking	click	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bucks	advcl
17	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clicking	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
19	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	a website not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pay	gerund	a website not said here	kids			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Asset
4	buck	present	a website			day	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	click	gerund	a website not said here	stuff			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, sign up straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 sign	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sign	compound:prt
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 sign	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign up	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Almost certainly a scam, so don't sign up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 certainly	advmod
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 scam	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scam	det
4	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sign	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 sign	advmod
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 sign	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 sign	advmod
9	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 scam	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sign	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sign up	infinitive · do-support							vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, if it looks professional

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 looks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	professional	professional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	it					professional property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, give them your parents' details

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 details	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 parents	case
8	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	your parents's details	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient detail=Theme
2	detail		your parents						nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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