Test 1 · ★★ · The piggy bank and a jar for each goal
Cian yells "ya wee rat!" ("wee" means little) after his brother spends £4 of his £12. What's the lesson for next time?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cian, wee, brother, lesson · What happens: yell, mean, spend, be · To what, where: ya wee rat, little
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» 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.
vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Topic
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: ("wee" means little) after his brother spends £4 of his £12.
vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Patient in sock=Location
Option 2
Never save at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Never
never
ADV
PronType=Neg
2 save
advmod
2
save
save
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
at
at
ADP
_
4 all
case
4
all
all
DET
PronType=Tot
2 save
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
notsave
imperative
you not said here
all
vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at all=Asset
Option 3
Spend everything before anyone else can
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Spend
spend
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
everything
everything
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Tot
1 Spend
obj
3
before
before
SCONJ
_
6 can
mark
4
anyone
anyone
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
6 can
nsubj
5
else
else
ADV
_
4 anyone
advmod
6
can
can
AUX
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
everything
vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Asset
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Keep savings somewhere safe, like a locked box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Keep
keep
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
2
savings
savings
NOUN
Number=Ptan
1 Keep
obj
3
somewhere
somewhere
ADV
PronType=Ind
1 Keep
advmod
4
safe
safe
ADJ
Degree=Pos
1 Keep
xcomp
5
,
,
PUNCT
_
9 box
punct
6
like
like
ADP
_
9 box
case
7
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
9 box
det
8
locked
lock
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
9 box
amod
9
box
box
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Keep
parataxis
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
keep
imperative
you not said here
savings
safe, somewhere property
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Theme
2
lock
participle
vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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.