Ben asks, "Why pay extra if the meal's already paid?" His dad, a Kiwi, says, "Waiter was sweet as, mate, good service deserves a tip." ("Sweet as" means great.) What's a tip?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, dad, Waiter, good service, tip · What happens: ask, pay, say, be, deserve, mean · To what, where: extra, meal, tip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: Ben asks, "Why pay extra if the meal's already paid?"
vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
payin a quote
infinitive
extra
vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Asset
3
paya condition, not said to happen, in a quote
present · passive
the meal
vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
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: His dad, a Kiwi, says, "Waiter was sweet as, mate, good service deserves a tip."
vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Extra money to thank someone for good service
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Extra
extra
ADJ
Degree=Pos
2 money
amod
2
money
money
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
3
to
to
PART
_
4 thank
mark
4
thank
thank
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
2 money
acl
5
someone
someone
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
4 thank
obj
6
for
for
ADP
_
8 service
case
7
good
good
ADJ
Degree=Pos
8 service
amod
8
service
service
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 thank
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
thankspeech: thank
to-infinitive
someone
for good service
vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for service=Attribute
Option 4
A fine for eating too slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
2 fine
det
2
fine
fine
ADJ
Degree=Pos
root
root
3
for
for
SCONJ
_
4 eating
mark
4
eating
eat
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
2 fine
advcl
5
too
too
ADV
_
6 slowly
advmod
6
slowly
slowly
ADV
_
4 eating
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
eat
gerund
slowly property
vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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.