Test 3 · ★ · The weekly shop and a family budget

What would happen if Mum bought a 5kg bag of fresh strawberries because "big bags are cheaper"?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, big bags · What happens: happen, buy, be · To what, where: kg bag

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 bought	mark
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bought	nsubj
6	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bag	det
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 kg	nummod
9	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bag	compound
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bought	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 strawberries	case
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 strawberries	amod
13	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bag	nmod
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 cheaper	mark
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cheaper	punct
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bags	amod
17	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cheaper	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cheaper	cop
19	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bought	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cheaper	punct
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy a condition, not said to happen	past	Mum	a kg bag of fresh strawberries		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	big bags		cheap property	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.

The options

Option 1

The shop would give her the strawberries for free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strawberries	det
7	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 free	case
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the shop	the strawberries	her = she			for free	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient strawberry=Theme for free=Asset

Option 2

Strawberries never go off, so nothing would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 happen	advmod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 happen	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off	present	Strawberries					off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	happen	would	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They would keep for months, so it's a clever saving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 months	case
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saving	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 saving	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saving	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saving	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 saving	det
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saving	amod
12	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	They				month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a clever saving					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lots would go off before they were eaten, so money would be wasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 go	compound:prt
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 eaten	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eaten	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux:pass
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 go	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wasted	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 wasted	advmod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wasted	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wasted	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wasted	aux:pass
14	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go off	would	Lots		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past · passive		Lots = lot	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	waste	would · passive		money	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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