Test 6 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping

What would happen if Kai kept lending to the friend who never pays back?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, friend · What happens: happen, keep, lend, not pay back · To what, where: friend

This is test 6 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

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 kept	mark
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	lending	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 friend	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 friend	det
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lending	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pays	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 pays	advmod
13	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	acl:relcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 pays	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Kai		tree rules
3	lend	gerund	Kai not said here	the friend	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient
4	not pay back	present	the friend		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Nothing, lending never costs anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 costs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lending	punct
3	lending	lend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 costs	advmod
5	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 costs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	gerund	Nothing not said here						vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	not cost	present	Nothing	anything					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anything=Value

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The friend would pay back double one day for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 pay	advmod
6	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obl:unmarked
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 sure	case
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	would	the friend				day	for sure	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sure=Theme

Option 3

Kai would get richer because lending makes money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 makes	mark
6	lending	lending	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	advcl
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Kai					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	present	lending	money					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd keep losing money; it's okay to say no and still be friends

The tree, 15 words

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 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 losing	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 okay	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 okay	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 okay	cop
9	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 okay	csubj
12	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 say	discourse
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 friends	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	16 friends	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 friends	cop
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	He				tree rules
2	lose	gerund	He not said here	money			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
3	is	present	it			okay property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	infinitive	He not said here	friends	still		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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