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title: Your sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is… — Cards, banks and apps · tree and pragmatics
description: Your sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is shocked how much went on sweets. What is she doing? Test 8 of lesson 7 «Cards, banks and apps» 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 ch
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# Test 8 · Cards, banks and apps

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Your sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is shocked how much went on sweets. What is she doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister, pocket money, much · **What happens:** write down, spend, be, go, do · **To what, where:** pocket money, sweets

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This is test 8 of lesson 7 «Cards, banks and apps» 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/7-cards-banks-and-apps/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is shocked how much went on sweets.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:7-cards-banks-and-apps:t8:1
# text = Your sister writes down her pocket money spending for a month and is shocked how much went on sweets.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	shocked	shocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | present | Your sister | sister's pocket money |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | gerund | sister's pocket money *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Your sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | shocked *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | much |  |  | sweets |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sweet=Location |

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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:* What is she doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:7-cards-banks-and-apps:t8:2
# text = What is she doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · progressive | much |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Earning interest on her sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:7-cards-banks-and-apps:t8:o1:1
# text = Earning interest on her sweets
1	Earning	earn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | gerund |  | interest |  | her sweets |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent interest=Theme on sweet=Source |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The same as a budgeting app does for grown-ups

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:7-cards-banks-and-apps:t8:o2:1
# text = The same as a budgeting app does for grown-ups
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	budgeting	budget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **budget** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | a budgeting app |  |  |  |  | for grown ups | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Opening a credit card account

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:7-cards-banks-and-apps:t8:o3:1
# text = Opening a credit card account
1	Opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund |  | a card account |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location account=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Making the shop lower its prices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:7-cards-banks-and-apps:t8:o4:1
# text = Making the shop lower its prices
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | the shop |  |  |  | low *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset shop=Beneficiary price=Product |

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**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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