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Test 2 · Taking without paying: the consequences

Kai's mate shouts "finders keepers!" about the £1 coin. What's the better rule?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, better rule · What happens: shout, be · To what, where: finders keepers

This is test 2 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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: Kai's mate shouts "finders keepers!" about the £1 coin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	nsubj
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 keepers	punct
6	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keepers	compound
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shouts	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 keepers	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 keepers	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 coin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coin	det
12	£	£	SYM	_	14 coin	compound
13	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod
14	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Kai's mate	finders keepers				about the £ coin	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=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 the better rule?

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 rule	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep it, as long as nobody saw you pick it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
10	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pick	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				long property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme you=Attribute
2	see	past	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	pick up	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Finders keepers, because that is the law in Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keepers	compound
2	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 law	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 law	mark
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 law	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 law	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keepers	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 law	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might be someone's, so hand it in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 someone	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 someone	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 someone	cop
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hand	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 hand	advmod
8	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 someone	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hand	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	It					's someone	tree rules
2	hand in	infinitive		it					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Split it with your friend, 50p each, so it's fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Split	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 friend	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Split	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 p	punct
7	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 p	nummod
8	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	conj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 p	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fair	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 fair	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fair	expl
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fair	cop
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Split	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	it				with your friend and 50 p each	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with friend=Instrument
2	is	present						fair 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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