Test 14 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

my cousin says she lent her mate twenty quid and "never saw it again, ever". what's the lesson

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: say, lend, not see, be · To what, where: mate, quid, lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lent	nsubj
5	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mate	nmod:poss
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lent	obj
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 quid	nummod
9	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lent	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 saw	advmod
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lent	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	13 saw	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ever	punct
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 saw	advmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lent	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 lesson	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lesson	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lesson	det
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lend	past	cousin	cousin's mate		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient quid=Theme
3	not see in a quote	past	cousin not said here	quid	again; ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is a	present		the lesson		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

Always lend everything you have

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 lend	advmod
2	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 lend	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	everything				always property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	have	present	you						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Never lend anything to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 lend	advmod
2	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 lend	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 lend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lend	imperative	you not said here	anything	anyone				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Theme to anyone=Recipient

Option 3

Money lent always comes back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
2	lent	lend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Money	acl
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 lent	advmod
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	participle		Money not said here				always property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	come back	present	Money						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lend only what you can afford to lose

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 afford	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 afford	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 afford	aux
6	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lend	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lose	mark
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afford	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	lend	imperative	you not said here	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	afford	can	you	tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive	you not said here	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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