Test 8 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…
A boy wants a £20 game and gets £5 pocket money a week. What will help him get it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: want, get, help · To what, where: £ game, pocket money, boy, money
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A boy wants a £20 game and gets £5 pocket money a week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 game | det |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 7 game | compound |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gets | cc |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 gets | obj |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 money | compound | ||
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 week | det |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a boy | a £ game | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | a boy not said here | pocket money | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent £=Beneficiary money=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.
Sentence 2: What will help him get it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | future | boy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | boy not said here | money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Saving part of his money each week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saving | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saving | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | gerund | part of his money | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Asking for it every day until he gets it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Asking | obl |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 gets | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Asking | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gets | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | day | for it | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | present | he | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3
Spending it all each week on snacks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Spending | obj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 it | det |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spending | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 snacks | case |
| 7 | snacks | snack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Spending | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | gerund | it | week | on snacks goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on snack=Goal |
Option 4
Borrowing from friends and forgetting to pay back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 friends | case |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Borrowing | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 forgetting | cc |
| 5 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Borrowing | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgetting | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 pay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | from friends | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from friend=Source | |||||
| 2 | forget | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not pay back | to-infinitive | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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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