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Test 9 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping

In a cartoon, a rich man gives £1 and everyone cheers, but a girl who gives an afternoon helping is ignored. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich man, everyone, girl · What happens: give, cheer, ignore, be · To what, where: cartoon, afternoon helping, girl

This is test 9 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: In a cartoon, a rich man gives £1 and everyone cheers, but a girl who gives an afternoon helping is ignored.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	nsubj
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	£	£	SYM	_	8 gives	obj
10	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 £	nummod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cheers	cc
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 cheers	nsubj
13	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gives	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ignored	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 ignored	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ignored	nsubj:pass
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 gives	nsubj
19	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 girl	acl:relcl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 helping	det
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 helping	compound
22	helping	helping	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gives	obj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ignored	aux:pass
24	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gives	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a rich man			a cartoon			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme
2	cheer	present	everyone						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	give	present	a girl	a afternoon helping					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helping=Theme
4	ignore	present · passive		a girl					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

Sentence 2: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Giving time and help counts too, not just money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 counts	csubj
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 help	cc
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	conj
5	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 counts	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 money	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 money	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 money	advmod
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counts	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund					time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	count	present	Giving						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Girls are not allowed to volunteer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girls	girl	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	to	to	PART	_	6 volunteer	mark
6	volunteer	volunteer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Girls					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	volunteer not said to happen	to-infinitive	Girls not said here						vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The rich man gave far too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 much	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the rich man	much					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only money ever helps a charity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 money	advmod
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 helps	advmod
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 charity	det
6	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	money	a charity			ever		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charity=Beneficiary

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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