Test 7 · ★ · In-game currency: coins and gems are real money
Kian: "grind or pay, innit." 5 hours of play earns 1,000 coins, or he pays £10. What's the trade-off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kian, 5 hours, trade off · What happens: grind, pay, innit, earn, be · To what, where: 1,000 coins
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 16 «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» 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: Kian: "grind or pay, innit."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kian | Kian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grind | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 grind | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grind | punct |
| 4 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 pay | cc |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grind | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 grind | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grind | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind in a quote | infinitive | Kian | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | infinitive | Kian not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | innit in a quote | infinitive | Kian not said here | tree rules |
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: 5 hours of play earns 1,000 coins, or he pays £10.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 earns | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 play | case |
| 4 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hours | nmod |
| 5 | earns | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 coins | nummod |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 earns | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pays | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 pays | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pays | nsubj |
| 11 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 earns | conj |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 11 pays | obj |
| 13 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 earns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | present | 5 hours of play | 1,000 coins | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | Kian | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
Sentence 3: What's the trade-off?
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 | 6 off | det |
| 4 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 off | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 trade | punct |
| 6 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trade off | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His time against his money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His coins against his skins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coins | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 skins | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 skins | nmod:poss |
| 5 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 coins | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coin | His = he | against his skins | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
Option 3
His password against the game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 password | nmod:poss |
| 2 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 password | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nothing, because both of them are free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 free | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 free | mark |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 free | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 both | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 free | cop |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | both | free 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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