Test 5 · ★ · Gambling and honesty with change

What would happen if Kai kept playing the claw machine until he won the £2 teddy, spending £12?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: happen, keep, play, win, spend · To what, where: claw machine, £ teddy

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 40 «Gambling and honesty with change» 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	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 machine	det
9	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 machine	compound
10	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 won	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 won	nsubj
13	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 playing	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 teddy	det
15	£	£	SYM	_	17 teddy	compound
16	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 £	nummod
17	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 won	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spending	punct
19	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 playing	conj
20	£	£	SYM	_	19 spending	obj
21	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 £	nummod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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	play	gerund	Kai not said here	the claw machine	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Theme
4	win	past	Kai	the £ teddy	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Eventuality
5	spend	gerund	Kai not said here		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He'd break even, because winning cancels the cost

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 break	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	3 break	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cancels	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 cancels	mark
7	winning	win	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cancels	nsubj
8	cancels	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 break	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cost	det
10	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cancels	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	break	would	He		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	win	gerund			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cancel	present		the cost	tree rules

Option 2

He'd be £10 richer because he won

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	6 richer	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 richer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 richer	cop
4	£	£	SYM	_	6 richer	obl:unmarked
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 £	nummod
6	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 won	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 won	nsubj
9	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 richer	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He					rich property	tree rules
2	win	past	he						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He'd have lost £10 overall, even with the teddy

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	4 lost	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	7 overall	obl:unmarked
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	overall	overall	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 teddy	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 teddy	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 teddy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teddy	det
12	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would · perfect	He					with the teddy; overall property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The arcade would refund him for trying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arcade	det
2	arcade	arcade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refund	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refund	aux
4	refund	refund	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refund	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 trying	mark
7	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 refund	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refund	would	the arcade	him = he					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	try	gerund	the arcade not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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