Test 16 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

this toy is super cheap, buy 3

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: toy · What happens: be, buy · To what, where: 3

This is test 16 · ★ 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	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cheap	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheap	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 cheap	advmod
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buy	punct
7	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 cheap	parataxis
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this toy					cheap, super property	tree rules
2	buy	infinitive		3					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Theme

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

Yes, cheap always means good value, so you save money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 cheap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 value	amod
7	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 save	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 save	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 save	nsubj
11	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	cheap	good value				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Topic
2	save	present	you	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2

Yes, buy as many as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 buy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buy	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 can	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 can	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 many	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	many					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme

Option 3

Yes, quality doesn't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 quality	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support		quality					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Check if it will last; cheap can cost more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 last	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 last	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 last	aux
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Check	ccomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 cost	punct
7	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cost	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cost	aux
9	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Check	conj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	last a condition, not said to happen	future	it		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	cost	can	cheap	more	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

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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