Test 11 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

kid in class wants to borrow all my money, promises to pay back

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: want, borrow, promise, pay back · To what, where: money

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 class	case
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 borrow	mark
6	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 money	det:predet
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 borrow	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promises	punct
11	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wants	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pay	mark
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promises	xcomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	kid in class		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive	kid in class not said here	my money	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	present	kid in class not said here		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pay back not said to happen	to-infinitive	kid in class not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Lend it and add interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lend	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 add	cc
4	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lend	conj
5	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	interest					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient

Option 2

Lend it without telling anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lend	obj
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 telling	mark
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Lend	advcl
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 3

Lend it all, he promised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lend	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lend	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 promised	nsubj
6	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Lend	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	he						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lend only what you could lose, or say no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lose	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lose	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lose	aux
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lend	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lend	conj
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 say	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	tree rules
2	lose	could	you	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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