Test 18 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds

my aunt says a pickpocket took "500 quid" from a kid's back pocket at the market. what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: aunt, pickpocket · What happens: say, take, be, exaggerate · To what, where: 500 quid, back pocket, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pickpocket	det
5	pickpocket	pickpocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quid	punct
8	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 quid	nummod
9	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quid	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	16 pocket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kid	det
13	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pocket	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 kid	case
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pocket	compound
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 market	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 market	det
19	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 prob	advmod
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 prob	cop
23	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
24	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my aunt				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past	a pickpocket	500 quid	a kid's back pocket	at the market	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent quid=Theme from pocket=Source at market=Asset
3	is a	present		prob			tree rules
4	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			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

That pickpockets exist at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 pickpockets	det
2	pickpockets	pickpocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 exist	nsubj
3	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 exist	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	that pickpockets			all			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

That back pockets are easy to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 back	det
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pockets	compound
3	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 easy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	cop
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reach	mark
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	back pockets					easy property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	back pockets not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The amount; keep money in a zipped pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 amount	det
2	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 amount	acl
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 pocket	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pocket	det
8	zipped	zip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pocket	amod
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive	the amount not said here	money		a zipped pocket			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in pocket=Location
2	zip	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

That markets get busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 markets	det
2	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	that markets					busy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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