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description: Big sister, sixteen: "I'm getting driving lessons for my birthday next week!" In the UK, what's the problem? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 39 «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 11 · ★ · Money, work and the big choices

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Big sister, sixteen: "I'm getting driving lessons for my birthday next week!" In the UK, what's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, drive, be · **To what, where:** lessons, problem, UK

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 39 «Money, work and the big choices» 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/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Big sister, sixteen: "I'm getting driving lessons for my birthday next week!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t11:1
# text = Big sister, sixteen: "I'm getting driving lessons for my birthday next week!"
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
10	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | lessons |  |  | week | for my birthday | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme lesson=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* In the UK, what's the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t11:2
# text = In the UK, what's the problem?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the problem |  | the UK |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You can only start learning at seventeen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t11:o1:1
# text = You can only start learning at seventeen
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | can | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  | seventeen |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You need to be twenty-one to learn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t11:o2:1
# text = You need to be twenty-one to learn
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | twenty one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Driving lessons are only for boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t11:o3:1
# text = Driving lessons are only for boys
1	Driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Driving lessons |  |  |  |  | for boys | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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There is no problem at all with that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t11:o4:1
# text = There is no problem at all with that
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no problem at all |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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