Test 8 · ★★ · The piggy bank and a jar for each goal

What would happen if Zara kept all her money in one jar for both the bike and Mum's present?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zara · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: money, one jar

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

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	_	6 kept	mark
5	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 money	det:predet
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 jar	nummod
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 bike	case
14	both	both	CCONJ	_	16 bike	cc:preconj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bike	det
16	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jar	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 present	cc
18	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Mum	case
20	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bike	conj
21	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Zara	Zara's money		one jar for the bike and Mum's present			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in jar=Location

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

Both goals would be reached twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 goals	det
2	goals	goal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reached	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 reached	aux:pass
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 reached	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 reached	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would · passive		both goals				fast, twice property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, one jar is always better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 better	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jar	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 jar	nummod
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 better	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					always, good property	tree rules

Option 3

The money would split itself fairly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 split	aux
4	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 split	obj
6	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	4 split	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	would	the money	money				fairly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She might spend it all on one goal and forget the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spend	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spend	aux
3	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spend	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 it	det
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 goal	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 goal	nummod
8	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spend	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 forget	cc
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spend	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	might	She	it				on one goal goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on goal=Goal
2	forget	infinitive	She not said here	the other					tree rules

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