Test 9 · Pocket money and earning it with chores
Dylan's room "looks like a bomb hit it" on Friday, and the rule is tidy room = £4. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: room, bomb, rule · What happens: look, hit, be, happen · To what, where: room, tidy room
This is test 9 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: Dylan's room "looks like a bomb hit it" on Friday, and the rule is tidy room = £4.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dylan | Dylan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 room | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dylan | case |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 room | punct |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 hit | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bomb | det |
| 8 | bomb | bomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | nsubj |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looks | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hit | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hit | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Friday | case |
| 13 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 room | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 room | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rule | det |
| 17 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 room | cop |
| 19 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 room | amod |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 £ | case |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 20 room | nmod |
| 23 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Dylan's room | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | past | a bomb | room | friday | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the rule | tidy room | tree rules |
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 happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He gets £4 anyway
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 | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 gets | obj |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 5 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 2 gets | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | He | anyway property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer £=Stimulus |
Option 2
Mum tidies it and pays him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tidies | nsubj |
| 2 | tidies | tidy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tidies | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pays | cc |
| 5 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tidies | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pays | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tidy | present | Mum | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | Mum not said here | him = he | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He gets no pocket money that week
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 | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 money | det |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | compound | ||
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | He | no pocket money that week | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
Option 4
He gets double pocket money next week instead
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 | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 money | amod |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | compound | ||
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 week | amod |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 2 gets | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | He | double pocket money next week | instead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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