Test 19 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

my mate says his cousin "saved a million in his piggy bank". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, cousin · What happens: say, save, be, exaggerate · To what, where: million, piggy bank, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cousin	nmod:poss
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saved	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cousin	punct
7	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 million	det
9	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 saved	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 bank	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bank	nmod:poss
12	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bank	compound
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saved	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 saved	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 prob	advmod
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 prob	cop
18	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
19	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save in a quote	past	mate's cousin	a million	mate's piggy bank	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme
3	is a	present		prob		tree rules
4	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here		tree rules

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

That piggy banks hold money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 piggy	det
2	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banks	compound
3	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	piggy banks	money					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 2

That saving adds up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 saving	det
2	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adds	nsubj
3	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 adds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add up speech: assert	present	that saving						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

That coins exist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 coins	det
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 exist	nsubj
3	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	that coins						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The million; but saving regularly does let small amounts add up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 million	det
2	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
5	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 let	csubj
6	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	5 saving	advmod
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 million	parataxis
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amounts	amod
10	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 add	nsubj
11	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 add	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	save	gerund		regularly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	let	present · do-support	saving		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	add up speech: assert	present	small amounts		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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