Test 7 · ★★ · The piggy bank and a jar for each goal
A Welsh nan says "lush, cariad, a jar for giving!" ("lush" means lovely; "cariad" means love.) What's a give jar for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Welsh nan, jar, lush, cariad · What happens: say, give, mean, be · To what, where: lush, love, give jar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: A Welsh nan says "lush, cariad, a jar for giving!"
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lush=Topic
2
givein a quote
gerund
a jar not said here
vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
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: ("lush" means lovely; "cariad" means love.)
vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary
Option 4
Paying for school dinners
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Paying
pay
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
2
for
for
ADP
_
4 dinners
case
3
school
school
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 dinners
compound
4
dinners
dinner
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Paying
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
pay
gerund
for school dinners
vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for dinner=Theme
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.