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Test 9 · In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem

Ollie's mum: «how much this year on games?» What's the best way to answer truthfully?

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

This is test 9 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: Ollie's mum: «how much this year on games?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ollie	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 much	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 much	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	acl:relcl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 much	obl:unmarked
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 games	case
11	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 year	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mum	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 mum	punct

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

Sentence 2: What's the best way to answer truthfully?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 answer	mark
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	truthfully	truthfully	ADV	_	7 answer	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best way						tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the best way not said here					truthfully property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ask a friend to guess how much he spent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 guess	mark
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 spent	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spent	nsubj
9	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a friend				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	guess not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	spend	past	friend						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Say «nothing» and change the subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 change	cc
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 subject	det
8	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	change	infinitive	you not said here	the subject					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Check the purchase history together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 history	det
3	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 history	compound
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	1 Check	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	the purchase history				together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme

Option 4

Guess a small number and hope she believes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 number	amod
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guess	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
6	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Guess	conj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 believes	nsubj
8	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hope	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 believes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	imperative	you not said here	a small number					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	hope	present	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	believe	present	she	number					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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