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Test 2 · ★★ · The piggy bank and a jar for each goal

Noah's mum asks "you sure?" before he moves £5 from save to spend. Why does she ask?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Noah · What happens: ask, move, save, spend

This is test 2 · ★★ 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Noah's mum asks "you sure?" before he moves £5 from save to spend.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Noah	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sure	nsubj
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asks	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 moves	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moves	nsubj
12	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	advcl
13	£	£	SYM	_	12 moves	obj
14	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 £	nummod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 save	case
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 moves	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 spend	mark
18	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 save	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Noah's mum						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	move	present	Noah						tree rules
3	save	infinitive	Noah not said here						tree rules
4	spend	to-infinitive	Noah not said here						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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: Why does she ask?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ask	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	mum						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

The £5 will simply disappear on the way across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 £	det
2	£	£	SYM	_	6 disappear	nsubj
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 £	nummod
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 disappear	aux
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 disappear	advmod
6	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disappear	obl
10	across	across	ADV	_	6 disappear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	future				the way		across, simply property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Moving it puts his saving goal further away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 puts	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Moving	obj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 goal	nmod:poss
5	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goal	compound
6	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obj
7	further	further	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 puts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		it					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	put	present	Moving	his saving goal				away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent goal=Goal

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Spend jars can never hold more than £3 at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Spend	ccomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 £	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	£	£	SYM	_	5 hold	obj
9	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	imperative	you not said here						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal
2	not hold	can	jars				time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme

Option 4

Moving money between jars is against the law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 law	csubj
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obj
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 jars	case
4	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 law	cop
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 law	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 law	det
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		money				between jars	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	is	present	Moving					against the law	tree rules

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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