Test 3 · When money is tight: "we can't afford it"

What would happen if Leo's mum bought the £200 bike with only £50 spare?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: happen, buy · To what, where: £ bike

This is test 3 of lesson 23 «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» 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	_	8 bought	mark
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Leo	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	nsubj
8	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bike	det
10	£	£	SYM	_	12 bike	compound
11	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 spare	case
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 £	advmod
15	£	£	SYM	_	17 spare	compound
16	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	spare	spare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy a condition, not said to happen	past	Leo's mum	the £ bike				with £ spare	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The family would just have £250 spare at the end of the month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	£	£	SYM	_	8 spare	compound
7	250	250	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 £	nummod
8	spare	spare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 month	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 month	det
14	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the family	£ spare			at the end of the month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spare=Patient

Option 2

The bike shop would pay the energy bill for them as a thank-you

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shop	det
2	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shop	compound
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bill	det
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bill	compound
8	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bill	nmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 thank	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thank	det
13	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 you	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 thank	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	the bike shop	the energy bill				for them = they; as a thank	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bill=Asset for they=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, because bikes are free to keep after the first month

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	_	6 free	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 free	mark
4	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 free	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 free	cop
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 free	advcl
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 month	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 month	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 month	amod
12	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bikes					free property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	bikes not said here				month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She'd be £150 short for other bills like food and energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 short	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 short	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 short	cop
4	£	£	SYM	_	6 short	obl:unmarked
5	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bills	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bills	amod
9	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 short	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bills	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 energy	cc
13	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bills	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	She					for other bills like food and energy; short 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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