Test 5 · Wasting food and water
«got £20 for my birthday, gonna spend it all on sweets today». What's likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, spend, be · To what, where: birthday, sweets
This is test 5 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» 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: «got £20 for my birthday, gonna spend it all on sweets today».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 birthday | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spend | punct |
| 9 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 spend | dep |
| 10 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spend | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 it | det |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sweets | case |
| 14 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spend | obl |
| 15 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spend | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | for my birthday | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent £=Theme for birthday=Source | |||||
| 2 | spend in a quote | infinitive | birthday | today | on sweets goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on sweet=Goal |
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's likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It's the best way to save
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 | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the best way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The shop gives change back later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 gives | advmod |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 gives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | present | the shop | change | late property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
Option 3
Sweets last much longer than money does, so it's fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 last | nsubj |
| 2 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 last | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 does | mark |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 longer | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fine | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fine | expl |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | cop |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 last | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | Sweets | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | money | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Sweets not said here | fine property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A sore tummy and no money left for later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tummy | det |
| 2 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tummy | amod |
| 3 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 money | cc |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tummy | conj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 money | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 later | case |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | no money not said here | late property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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