Test 9 · Taking care of your things and money

Why is a budget useful for a family?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: budget · What happens: be

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 useful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 budget	det
4	budget	budget	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	nsubj
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 family	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 useful	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a budget					for a family; useful property	tree rules

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

It means they never have to buy food again

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have	present	they			tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	they not said here	food	again	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 2

It is a way of borrowing money from friends

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 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 borrowing	mark
6	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 way	acl
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 borrowing	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 friends	case
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 borrowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a way					tree rules
2	borrow	gerund	a way not said here	money				from friends	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from friend=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It helps them pay for needs and save before spending on wants

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 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 needs	case
6	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pay	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 save	cc
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pay	conj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 spending	mark
10	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 save	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 wants	case
12	wants	want	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	them = they		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	pay	infinitive	them = they not said here		for needs	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for need=Theme
3	save	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spend	gerund	them = they not said here		on wants goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on want=Goal

Option 4

It makes prices in the shops go down

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shops	det
6	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	prices					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material price=Product
2	go down	present	the shops					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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