Test 20 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

kids say the girl who only gets small pocket money is "poor, her mum's got no money". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, girl, mum · What happens: say, get, be, pass on · To what, where: small pocket money, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poor	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gets	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	acl:relcl
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 money	amod
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 money	compound
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 poor	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 poor	punct
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 got	aux
18	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 poor	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 money	det
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pass	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	23 pass	compound:prt
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the girl	small pocket money		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	the girl		poor property	tree rules
4	get in a quote	present · passive	girl's mum	no money		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
5	pass on	infinitive		money		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and ask her mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her mum				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, she must be poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 poor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 poor	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 poor	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 poor	cop
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	she					poor property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's unkind and not your business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unkind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 business	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 business	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 business	nmod:poss
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unkind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					unkind property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, and laugh about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 laugh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laugh	cc
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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