Test 14 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

cheap $2 ball broke again, 3rd one this month lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cheap $ ball · What happens: break · To what, where: 3rd one

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ball	amod
2	$	$	SYM	_	4 ball	compound
3	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 $	nummod
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 broke	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
8	3rd	3rd	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obl
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 month	det
11	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obl:unmarked
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 broke	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	cheap $ ball	3rd one			again; month		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Balls always break, it's normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 break	advmod
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 normal	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Balls					always property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	it					normal property	tree rules

Option 2

Buy five at once next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Buy	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Buy	obl
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	five			time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent five=Theme at once=Asset

Option 3

Keep buying the cheap ones, they're cheaper every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
4	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buying	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cheaper	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cheaper	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cheaper	cop
9	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Keep	parataxis
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cheaper	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	buy	gerund	you not said here	the cheap ones			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	is	present	they		time	cheap property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Something that lasts can cost less in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 cost	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lasts	nsubj
3	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Something	acl:relcl
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cost	aux
5	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 cost	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present							vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	cost	can	Something	less			in the end		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value

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