Test 3 · Taking care of your things and money
Mia's family has money for either new school shoes or a big chocolate egg. What should come first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: have, come · To what, where: money
This is test 3 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: Mia's family has money for either new school shoes or a big chocolate egg.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 7 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 10 shoes | cc:preconj |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shoes | amod |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoes | compound |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 money | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 egg | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 egg | amod |
| 14 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 egg | compound |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shoes | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mia's family | money | for new school shoes or a big chocolate egg | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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 should come first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | should | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The chocolate egg, because it is a treat for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 egg | det |
| 2 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 egg | compound |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 treat | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 treat | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 treat | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 treat | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 treat | det |
| 9 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 egg | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 everyone | case |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 treat | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a treat | for everyone | tree rules |
Option 2
Neither, money should never be spent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 7 spent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spent | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 spent | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spent | aux:pass |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spend | should · passive | money | neither property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
Option 3
Whichever one is on the advert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whichever | whichever | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 advert | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 advert | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 advert | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 advert | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 advert | det |
| 6 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | one | the advert | whichever property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The school shoes, because they are a need
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoes | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoes | compound |
| 3 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 need | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 need | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 need | det |
| 9 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | shoes = shoe | a need | 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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