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Test 9 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

A little boy thinks the card machine in a shop makes money. What would you explain?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little boy, card machine, you · What happens: think, make, explain · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A little boy thinks the card machine in a shop makes money.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 machine	det
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 machine	compound
7	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shop	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shop	det
10	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 machine	nmod
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinks	ccomp
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a little boy						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	present	the card machine in a shop	money					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product

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.

Sentence 2: What would you explain?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 explain	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 explain	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 explain	nsubj
4	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	would	you						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Money appears in the bank when it is needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appears	nsubj
2	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appears	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 needed	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 needed	aux:pass
9	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 appears	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	Money			the bank			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bank=Location
2	need	present · passive		Money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The machine makes new money every time it beeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 machine	det
2	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 money	amod
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl:unmarked
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beeps	nsubj
9	beeps	beep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the machine	new money			time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product
2	beep	present	machine	every time not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The card only spends money that adults earned by working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 card	det
2	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spends	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 spends	advmod
4	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spends	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 earned	obj
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 earned	nsubj
8	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 money	acl:relcl
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 working	mark
10	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spends	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	the card	money					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
2	earn	past	adults	money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	work	gerund	the card not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Shops give money to anyone with a card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 give	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 card	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 card	det
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Shops	money	anyone			with a card	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to anyone=Recipient

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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