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Test 8 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

Jayden reads his notebook in December. What's it good for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jayden · What happens: read, be · To what, where: notebook

This is test 8 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: Jayden reads his notebook in December.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 notebook	nmod:poss
4	notebook	notebook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 December	case
6	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 notebook	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Jayden	Jayden's notebook				in December	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Topic

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: What's it good for?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 good	obl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	expl
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 good	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Writing down cheat codes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Writing	compound:prt
3	cheat	cheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 codes	compound
4	codes	code	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Writing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	gerund		cheat codes					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent code=Theme

Option 2

Remembering all his friends' passwords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 friends	det:predet
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passwords	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 friends	case
6	passwords	password	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Remembering	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	gerund		his friends's passwords					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent password=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seeing the truth about what he spends on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spends	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 spends	mark
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 spends	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spends	nsubj
7	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 spends	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		the truth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus
2	spend on	present	he						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset

Option 4

Proving he's better at games than his mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proving	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 better	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 games	case
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 mates	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mates	nmod:poss
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	gerund							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				games		than his mates; good 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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