Test 11 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play
got $10 pocket money, spend it all on lollies?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: get, spend · To what, where: money, lollies
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 1 got | obj |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 money | nummod |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | compound | ||
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 $ | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spend | punct |
| 7 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 got | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spend | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 it | det |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 lollies | case |
| 11 | lollies | lolly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spend | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer $=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | spend | infinitive | money | on lollies goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on lolly=Goal |
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
Save it all and never spend any
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Save | obj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 it | det |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spend | cc |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 spend | advmod |
| 6 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Save | conj |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 spend | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative | you not said here | it | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not spend | infinitive | you not said here | any | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Asset |
Option 2
Give it all to your friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 it | det |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 friends | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | it | your friends | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to friend=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Save some and spend some wisely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Save | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spend | cc |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Save | conj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 spend | obj |
| 6 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 4 spend | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative | you not said here | some | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spend | infinitive | you not said here | some | wisely property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset |
Option 4
Spend it all, money is for spending
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 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 it | det |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spending | punct |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spending | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spending | cop |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 spending | case |
| 8 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spend | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | imperative | you not said here | it | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | money | for spending | tree rules |
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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