Test 17 · Taking care of your things and money

heard a kid in our year spent £200 of his mum's money on a game without asking and she cried

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, she · What happens: hear, spend, ask, cry · To what, where: game

This is test 17 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 year	nmod:poss
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kid	nmod
7	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	£	£	SYM	_	7 spent	obj
9	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 money	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 money	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mum	case
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 £	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 game	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 game	det
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obl
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 asking	mark
19	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 spent	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a kid in our year not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	spend	past	a kid in our year	on a game goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent £=Asset on game=Goal
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	a kid in our year not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	she		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: money is for needs first, and spending must be planned and allowed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needs	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 needs	case
7	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lesson	conj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 needs	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 planned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 planned	cc
11	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 planned	nsubj:pass
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 planned	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 planned	aux:pass
14	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lesson	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 allowed	cc
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 planned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	money		for needs; first property	tree rules
2	plan	must · passive		spending		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	allow	participle				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

Real lesson: games always cost two hundred pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cost	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 games	punct
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cost	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 cost	advmod
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pounds	nummod
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Real lesson	hundred pounds				always property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value

Option 3

It is gossip, so spending without asking is fine

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	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spending	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 spending	advmod
6	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gossip	parataxis
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spending	advcl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip		tree rules
2	spend	gerund				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	gossip		fine property	tree rules

Option 4

It proves mums should never have bank cards

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proves	ccomp
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cards	compound
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not have	should	mums	bank cards					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient

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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