Test 5 · ★ · Wants and needs

What would happen if a family spent all its money on wants first?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: happen, spend · To what, where: money, wants

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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	_	7 spent	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	nsubj
7	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 money	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 money	nmod:poss
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 wants	case
12	wants	want	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spent	obl
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 spent	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	past	a family	family's money				on wants goal; first property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on want=Goal

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

Needs would become free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Needs					free property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, needs and wants cost the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 needs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cost	cc
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cost	cop
6	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	Nothing not said here					cost property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would get extra money from the shops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 money	amod
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shops	det
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It	extra money		the shops			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from shop=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It might not have enough left for food, rent or warm clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 left	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	aux
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rent	punct
10	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 clothes	cc
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clothes	amod
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	might · perfect · passive		It				for food and rent or warm clothes; enough property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for food=Recipient

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