Test 10 · Taking care of your things and money

i NEED that new game

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: need · To what, where: new game

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 NEED	nsubj
2	NEED	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 game	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 NEED	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	i	that new game					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Games are always real needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 needs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 needs	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 needs	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 needs	amod
5	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Games	real needs				always property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's a want, not a need

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	4 want	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 want	det
4	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 need	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 need	det
8	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a want and a need					tree rules

Option 3

It's a need, like a home

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	4 need	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 need	det
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 home	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 home	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 home	det
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a need and a home					tree rules

Option 4

It's a need, just like food

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	4 need	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 need	det
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 food	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 food	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a need and food					tree rules

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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