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Test 8 · Pocket money and earning it with chores

A gran in Newcastle slips her grandson a tenner: "divvn't tell yer mam, pet" ("divvn't" means don't). What's a sensible thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, divv · What happens: slip, not tell, mean, not do, be, do · To what, where: grandson, mam, sensible thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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: A gran in Newcastle slips her grandson a tenner: "divvn't tell yer mam, pet" ("divvn't" means don't).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gran	det
2	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slips	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Newcastle	case
4	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gran	nmod
5	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandson	nmod:poss
7	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slips	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tenner	det
9	tenner	tenner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slips	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	divv	divv	X	Foreign=Yes	14 tell	nsubj
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 slips	parataxis
15	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mam	nmod:poss
16	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pet	punct
18	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	vocative
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 divv	punct
22	divv	divv	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 divv	advmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 divv	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slips	parataxis
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	ccomp
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 do	advmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	present	a gran in Newcastle	gran's grandson					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	divv	yer's mam				pet vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient
3	mean	present	divv						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not do	infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What's a sensible thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a sensible thing					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hide it and never tell anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 2

Spend it before anyone sees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spend	obj
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 sees	mark
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spend	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here	it					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	see	present	anyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say thanks, and be honest with Mum about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honest	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 honest	cc
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 honest	cop
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Mum	case
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 honest	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 honest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	is	infinitive						with Mum; about thanks; honest property	tree rules

Option 4

Give it back because gifts of money are always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 wrong	mark
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrong	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gifts	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 wrong	advmod
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	gifts of money					always, wrong property	tree rules
3	gift			money					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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