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Test 7 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

Kai sold his old toys to buy his card. Why will he likely spend it carefully?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: sell, buy, spend · To what, where: old toys, card

This is test 7 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 sold his old toys to buy his card.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toys	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toys	amod
5	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sold	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sold	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 card	nmod:poss
9	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	Kai	Kai's old toys					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
2	buy	to-infinitive	Kai not said here	Kai's card					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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: Why will he likely spend it carefully?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spend	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spend	nsubj
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 spend	advmod
5	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spend	obj
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 spend	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	future	Kai	card				carefully, likely property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He knows how much work the money took

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	He	much work					tree rules
2	take	past	the money						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He is not allowed to spend it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spend	mark
6	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		He					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The card is harder to use than other cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 card	det
2	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harder	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	cop
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 use	mark
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harder	csubj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 cards	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cards	amod
9	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the card					hard property	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive						than other cards	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Car boot money is worth more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boot	compound
2	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 money	compound
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	boot money					worth property	tree rules

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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