Test 12 · ★★★ · Regret, silly buys and peer pressure

Jack's £10 fidget toy lasted 2 days; Ana's £2 of thread made 10 bracelets that friends loved for months. Which was better value, and why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: £ fidget toy, thread, friends · What happens: last, make, love, be · To what, where: 10 bracelets, better value

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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: Jack's £10 fidget toy lasted 2 days; Ana's £2 of thread made 10 bracelets that friends loved for months.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 toy	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	£	£	SYM	_	6 toy	compound
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 £	nummod
5	fidget	fidget	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toy	compound
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lasted	nsubj
7	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lasted	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 £	punct
11	Ana	Ana	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 £	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Ana	case
13	£	£	SYM	_	7 lasted	obl
14	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 £	nummod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 thread	case
16	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 £	nmod
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 thread	acl
18	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 bracelets	nummod
19	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 loved	obj
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 loved	nsubj
22	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bracelets	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 months	case
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 loved	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lasted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	last	past	Jack's £ fidget toy		day	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle	thread not said here	10 bracelets		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bracelet=Product
3	love	past	friends	10 bracelets	month	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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: Which was better value, and why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 value	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 value	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 value	amod
4	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 why	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 why	cc
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 value	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 value	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		better value					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ana's, because she got lots of lasting use from little money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ana	Ana	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ana	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ana	acl:relcl
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 use	case
9	lasting	lasting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 use	amod
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lots	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 money	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 money	amod
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Ana	lots of lasting use		little money			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Theme from money=Source

Option 2

Jack's, because it cost more so it must be better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cost	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 cost	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cost	nsubj
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	1 Jack	acl:relcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 cost	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 better	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 better	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 better	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 better	cop
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 cost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	it	more					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
2	is	must	it					good property	tree rules

Option 3

Jack's, because fads always come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
5	fads	fad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Jack	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	fads					always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Both the same, money is money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	7 money	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 money	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 same	punct
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 money	cop
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the same money	money					tree rules

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