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Test 11 · ★ · The weekly shop and a family budget

Your big brother says, "Budgets are for skint people, rich families just buy whatever." What's the wisest reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big brother, Budgets, skint people, wisest reply · What happens: say, be, buy · To what, where: whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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: Your big brother says, "Budgets are for skint people, rich families just buy whatever."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 people	punct
7	Budgets	budget	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 people	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 buy	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 families	punct
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 families	amod
14	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	conj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 buy	advmod
16	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 buy	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your big brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Budgets					for skint people and rich families	tree rules
3	buy in a quote	present	skint people and rich families	whatever					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=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: What's the wisest reply?

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 reply	det
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	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 wisest reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Budgets are only for shops, never for ordinary families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Budgets	budget	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shops	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shops	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 shops	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 shops	case
5	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 families	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 families	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 families	case
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 families	amod
10	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shops	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Budgets					for shops and ordinary families	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rich families pay nothing, so they don't need one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pay	nsubj
3	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 pay	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pay	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	Rich families	nothing					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Asset
2	not need	present · do-support	families = family	one					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 3

He's right, only people with no money plan spending

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	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 people	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 people	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 spending	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 spending	det
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	compound
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spending	compound
11	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					people with no plan spending obl; right property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Any family can use a budget to spend money well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 budget	det
6	budget	budget	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spend	mark
8	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spend	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 spend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	can	any family	a budget					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Patient
2	spend	to-infinitive	any family not said here	money				well property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset

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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