Test 10 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find

found a fiver on the pavement, finders keepers yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find · To what, where: fiver, pavement

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fiver	det
3	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 pavement	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pavement	det
6	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fiver	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keepers	punct
8	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keepers	compound
9	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fiver	conj
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 found	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		a fiver and finders keepers		the pavement			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiver=Topic

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, as long as nobody saw you pick it up off the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 pick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 pick	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 pick	nsubj
9	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pick	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 pick	compound:prt
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pick up	infinitive	you	it				off the floor; long property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Yes, that's the rule everyone uses, it's yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 yours	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rule	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 rule	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rule	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rule	det
6	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yes	appos
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 uses	nsubj
8	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rule	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 yours	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 yours	cop
12	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the rule	tree rules
2	use	present	everyone	the rule not said here	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
3	is a	present	rule	yours	tree rules

Option 3

Only if it's worth less than ten pounds in total

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 worth	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 worth	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worth	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pounds	amod
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 ten	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 less	fixed
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pounds	nummod
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 total	case
11	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pounds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					worth property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it still belongs to someone, ask an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 belongs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 belongs	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 belongs	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 belongs	advmod
5	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 ask	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 someone	punct
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	it				still		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a adult			to someone	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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