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title: got £10 pocket money, spending all of it today on sweets — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: got £10 pocket money, spending all of it today on sweets Test 12 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

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got £10 pocket money, spending all of it today on sweets

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** £ 10 pocket money · **What happens:** get, spend · **To what, where:** all, sweets

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday 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/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t12:1
# text = got £10 pocket money, spending all of it today on sweets
1	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	nsubj	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **spend** | gerund | £ 10 pocket money *not said here* | all |  |  | today | on sweets *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent all=Asset on sweet=Goal |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Hide it and forget it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t12:o1:1
# text = Hide it and forget it
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Give it all away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t12:o2:1
# text = Give it all away
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give away** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spend it all at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t12:o3:1
# text = Spend it all at once
1	Spend	spend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | all *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Save some and spend some wisely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t12:o4:1
# text = Save some and spend some wisely
1	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  | wisely *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset |

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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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