--- title: Your cousin did a sponsored silence for an hour and raised £40. Wher… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: Your cousin did a sponsored silence for an hour and raised £40. Where does the money go? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Bad news, protests and helping others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others Your cousin did a sponsored silence for an hour and raised £40. Where does the money go? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin, money · **What happens:** do, sponsor, raise, go · **To what, where:** sponsored silence This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your cousin did a sponsored silence for an hour and raised £40. ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t6:1 # text = Your cousin did a sponsored silence for an hour and raised £40. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sponsored sponsor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 12 £ £ SYM $ _ 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Your cousin | a sponsored silence | | | hour | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Eventuality | | 2 | **sponsor** | participle | | | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **raise** | participle | Your cousin *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | 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:* Where does the money go? ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t6:2 # text = Where does the money go? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present · do-support | the money | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Into her own pocket money ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t6:o1:1 # text = Into her own pocket money 1 Into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} To the people who sponsored her ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t6:o2:1 # text = To the people who sponsored her 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sponsored sponsor VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sponsor** | past | the people | | her *= she* | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} To the charity she chose ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t6:o3:1 # text = To the charity she chose 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | past | she | the charity *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charity=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} To the school's head teacher ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t6:o4:1 # text = To the school's head teacher 1 To to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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