Test 15 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

taking all my money to town in my back pocket

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: take · To what, where: money, back pocket

This is test 15 · ★ 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	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 money	det:predet
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 taking	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 town	case
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 taking	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pocket	compound
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		my money		my back pocket		to town	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme to town=Destination

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

Hold it in your hand all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it		your hand	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Take it all in your back pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pocket	compound
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it		your back pocket			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in pocket=Location

Option 3

Hide it in your shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shoe	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoe	nmod:poss
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it		your shoe			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in shoe=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Take only what you need and zip it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Take	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 zip	cc
7	zip	zip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 zip	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 zip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	need	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	zip away	present	you not said here	it	away property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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