Test 2 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping
Your mate goes, "Charity's only for rich people, kids can't do nothing." What's true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Charity, kids · What happens: go, be, not do · To what, where: nothing
This is test 2 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 mate goes, "Charity's only for rich people, kids can't do nothing."
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 | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 6 | Charity | Charity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 people | cop |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 people | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 people | parataxis |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Charity | for rich people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | can | kids | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Kids can help with small amounts, time and kindness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 amounts | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 amounts | amod |
| 6 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kindness | cc |
| 10 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | Kids | time | with small amounts | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with amount=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He's right, only rich people can give
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 | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 people | advmod |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | can | rich people | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Charities only accept cheques over £100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accept | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 accept | advmod |
| 3 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cheques | cheque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accept | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 £ | case |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 accept | obl |
| 7 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present | Charities | cheques | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheque=Theme |
Option 4
Kids are not allowed near charities by law until they are 18
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 charities | case |
| 6 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | obl |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 18 | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 18 | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 18 | cop |
| 12 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | law | Kids | charities | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | present | Kids = kid | 18 | 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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