Test 10 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself

Why is a jar of savings you can see better than money in a pocket?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: jar, savings

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 jar	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 jar	det
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 savings	case
6	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 jar	nmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 savings	acl:relcl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 see	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 money	case
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pocket	det
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 money	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 jar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a jar				of savings	tree rules
2	see	can	you	savings not said here				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer savings=Stimulus

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

Jars make the money grow faster than a pocket does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 pocket	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pocket	det
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faster	obl
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	make	present	Jars		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material
2	grow	present	the money	fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	Jars not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You can see it grow and remember what it's for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 remember	cc
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 remember	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 for	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 for	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	8 what	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	see	can	You	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow	infinitive	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember	infinitive	You not said here	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 3

Pockets lose money by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Pockets	money				by magic	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Shops don't take jar money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	compound
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	present · do-support	Shops	jar money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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