Test 10 · ★★ · Borrowing without asking
«fountain money's just lying there, free cash». What is the right answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fountain money, right answer · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: free cash
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 339 «Borrowing without asking» 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: «fountain money's just lying there, free cash».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 lying | punct |
| 2 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 money | compound |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 money | case |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 lying | advmod |
| 6 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lying | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cash | punct |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cash | amod |
| 10 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lying | obj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 cash | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | gerund | fountain money | free cash | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cash=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 is the right answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only the big coins are owned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 coins | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coins | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coins | amod |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 owned | aux:pass |
| 6 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | present · passive | the big coins | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
It belongs to the shopping centre's children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belongs | nsubj |
| 2 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centre | det |
| 5 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centre | compound |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 centre | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 belongs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | It | to the shopping centre's children | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It's still somebody's money, usually for charity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 money | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 money | advmod |
| 4 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 somebody | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 charity | punct |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 charity | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 charity | case |
| 10 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | somebody's money and charity | still | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, it's free once it's in water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 free | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 free | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | cop |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 10 water | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 water | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 water | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | water | tree rules |
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