Test 5 · Taking care of your things and money

What would most likely happen if someone spent all their pocket money the day they got it every week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, they · What happens: happen, spend, get · To what, where: pocket money, money

This is test 5 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 spent	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 spent	nsubj
8	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 money	det:predet
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 money	nmod:poss
11	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 money	compound
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 day	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	obj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 week	det
19	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl:unmarked
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	past	someone	their pocket money	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
3	get	past	they	money	week		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The bank would give them extra interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bank	det
2	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 interest	amod
7	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the bank	extra interest	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient interest=Theme

Option 2

Their pocket money would grow by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 money	nmod:poss
2	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 money	compound
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Their pocket money					by money	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

Option 3

They would end up with more money at the end of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 end	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 money	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 money	amod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	They				at the end of end	with more money	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would never be able to buy anything bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 able	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 able	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 buy	obj
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	They					able property	tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	They not said here	anything					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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