Test 4 · Taking care of your things and money
A girl buys a $3 snack with a $5 note, and the shop gives her $1. What happened?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, shop · What happens: buy, give, happen · To what, where: $ snack, girl
This is test 4 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 girl buys a $3 snack with a $5 note, and the shop gives her $1.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buys | nsubj |
| 3 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snack | det |
| 5 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 7 snack | compound |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 $ | nummod |
| 7 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buys | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 note | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 note | det |
| 10 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 12 note | compound |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 $ | nummod |
| 12 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buys | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gives | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gives | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shop | det |
| 16 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | nsubj |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 buys | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gives | iobj |
| 19 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 17 gives | obj |
| 20 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 $ | nummod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buys | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | a girl | a $ snack | with a $ note | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present | the shop | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient $=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.
Sentence 2: What happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She was given $1 too much in change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 3 given | obj |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 $ | nummod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 $ | amod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 change | case |
| 9 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | She | change | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient $=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
She was given $1 too little change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 8 change | compound |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 $ | nummod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 change | amod |
| 8 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | She | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient change=Theme |
Option 3
She did not need to get any change at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | xcomp |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 change | det |
| 8 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | past · do-support | She | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | any change | all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent change=Theme at all=Asset |
Option 4
She was given exactly the right change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 change | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 change | det |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 change | amod |
| 7 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | She | the right change obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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