Test 16 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds

man in the street asks me for money what do i do

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, i · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: me, money

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 276 «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 street	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 man	nmod
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 asks	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	obl
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 money	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	man in the street		me			for money	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	do	present · do-support	i	money					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Give him your wallet so he can choose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wallet	nmod:poss
4	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 choose	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 choose	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 choose	aux
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	your wallet	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wallet=Theme
2	choose	can	he						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Go with him to a cash machine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 machine	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 machine	det
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 machine	compound
7	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			a cash machine		with him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to machine=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stay with your adult and let them decide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 adult	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 adult	nmod:poss
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		with your adult	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
3	decide	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Run off and leave your adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Run	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leave	cc
4	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 adult	nmod:poss
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	your adult					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=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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