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Test 4 · ★ · Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch,…

A boy keeps his allowance loose in his schoolbag and never knows how much he has. What should he change?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, allowance · What happens: keep, loose, not know, have, allowance, change · To what, where: schoolbag, much

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 330 «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals» 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 keeps his allowance loose in his schoolbag and never knows how much he has.

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 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 allowance	nmod:poss
5	allowance	allowance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loose	nsubj
6	loose	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 schoolbag	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 schoolbag	nmod:poss
9	schoolbag	schoolbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loose	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knows	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 knows	advmod
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loose	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knows	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 much	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a boy						tree rules
2	loose	past	boy's allowance			boy's schoolbag			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not know	present	boy's allowance not said here	much					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
4	have	present	allowance						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	allowance		boy						nom allowance «possession transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What should he change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 change	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 change	nsubj
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	should	allowance						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Keep it in a money box and write down what he has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 box	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 box	compound
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 write	cc
8	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 write	compound:prt
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 has	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 write	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it		a money box			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in box=Location
2	write down	infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	he						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Option 2

Spend it faster so it cannot get lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Spend	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj:pass
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lost	advmod
8	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Spend	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it				fast property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	not lose	can · passive		it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Keep it in his shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoes	nmod:poss
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it		his shoes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in shoe=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ask for more money each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 money	case
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 money	amod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here				week	for more money	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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