Test 1 · Taking care of your things and money
A boy in Sydney gets $6 a week. He spends $2 and saves the rest for a $28 game. How long will he need?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: get, spend, save, need · To what, where: rest
This is test 1 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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 in Sydney gets $6 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 | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 5 gets | obj |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 $ | nummod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a boy in Sydney | week | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer $=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.
Sentence 2: He spends $2 and saves the rest for a $28 game.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spends | nsubj |
| 2 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 2 spends | obj |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 $ | nummod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saves | cc |
| 6 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spends | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saves | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 game | det |
| 11 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 13 game | compound |
| 12 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 $ | nummod |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saves | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | boy | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Asset | |||||
| 2 | save | present | boy not said here | the rest | for a $ game | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rest=Theme for game=Source |
Sentence 3: How long will he need?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 need | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | future | boy | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
6 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
4 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
7 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
14 weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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