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Test 8 · In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem

Kai, birthday money in hand: «buying it NOW». Wisest advice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birthday money · What happens: buy · To what, where: hand

This is test 8 of lesson 412 «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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: Kai, birthday money in hand: «buying it NOW».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 money	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 money	punct
3	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	compound
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 hand	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 buying	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 buying	punct
9	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 money	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 buying	obj
11	NOW	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 buying	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 buying	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 money	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy in a quote	gerund	birthday money in hand not said here	hand			now		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: Wisest advice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 advice	amod
2	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 advice	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Spend it all, money is for spending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spending	punct
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spending	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spending	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 spending	case
8	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	is	present	money					for spending	tree rules

Option 2

Buy it quick before the money disappears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Buy	obj
3	quick	quick	ADV	_	1 Buy	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 disappears	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappears	nsubj
7	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	it				quick property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	disappear	present	the money						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wait a few days and see if he still wants it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 wants	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wants	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 wants	advmod
10	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	want a condition, not said to happen	present	he	it			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

Buy the banana and the Lego together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 banana	det
3	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Lego	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lego	det
6	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	conj
7	together	together	ADV	_	1 Buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	the banana				together property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Theme

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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